History
Satsuma Taki Station opened on 1 May 1952 as a Japanese Government Railways stop on the Kagoshima Main Line, between Nishikata and Kusamichi. Despite originally being staffed with a wooden station building, the surrounding area was thinly populated and ridership stayed low: ticket and gate operations were withdrawn just 11 years later on 10 May 1963, and CTC-driven full unstaffing followed on 1 April 1970. The wooden station building was demolished in March 1976. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the station passed to JR Kyushu, and on 13 March 2004 — when the Kyushu Shinkansen opened — it was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway. The station sits on a sharp curve, with the main-line (platform 2) track built with deep cant to allow express trains to pass at speed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because the line curves sharply through the station, the main-line track has deep cant — trains that stop on platform 2 visibly tilt at rest.