History
Kurino Station opened on 5 September 1903 as the Kagoshima Line was extended from Yokogawa (now Ōsumi-Yokogawa) to this point. A forest tramway to Shiratori in Iino Village was laid in 1908. On 11 September 1921, the Yamano Light Railway Line opened from Kurino to Yamano and the station became a junction; the line was renamed the Yamano Line on 2 September 1922. Cargo handling was abolished on 1 April 1982 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. With the breakup and privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, Kurino passed to JR Kyushu. The Yamano Line was abolished in its entirety on 1 February 1988. The station became a kan'i itaku (simplified entrustment) station on 1 April 2004, and in 2011 the Yūsui Town Tourism Association moved into the former station office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kurino is a ground-level station with one island platform and two tracks; the side platform (track 1) on the station-building side is the former Yamano Line track and is no longer in use. Behind the platforms lies Marui-ike, one of Japan's hundred famous waters; the spring flows out through the Maru-ike Yūsui Brick Culvert beneath the platforms, recognised as a Modernisation Industrial Heritage site. The departure-signal bell on the platform is the same style as the one at Masaki Station. An upright street piano was installed in the waiting room on 11 March 2017 through a volunteer project in Kagoshima Prefecture.