History
Ōsumi-Yokogawa Station opened on 15 January 1903 as Yokogawa Station, a stop on the Kagoshima Main Line. The station was renamed Ōsumi-Yokogawa on 1 September 1920. The Yatsushiro-Yoshimatsu-Kagoshima portion of the Kagoshima Main Line was separated, becoming the Hisatsu Line on 17 October 1927. Freight ended in 1971, baggage handling in 1984, and the station became unstaffed on 1 November 1986. JR Kyushu inherited it at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The wooden station building — dating from the 1903 opening and the oldest in Kagoshima Prefecture alongside Kareigawa — was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in October 2006. Pillars on the platform still carry strafing marks from a July 1945 attack by U.S. military aircraft.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Pillars on the platform still carry strafing marks from a 30 July 1945 attack on freight cars by U.S. aircraft during the Pacific War.