History
Uemura Station opened on 5 July 1957 after a sustained campaign by Yokogawa Town residents, who formed a station-building committee in March 1956. National Railways agreed to add the stop in November 1956 but required the town to provide the 178.6 m² site, the 480,000-yen construction cost and surrounding road work itself; the waiting shelter was even built by local volunteers from felling and milling the lumber through to construction. The platform was initially too short for locomotive-hauled trains, so until 1 October 1965 only railcars stopped here. JR Kyushu inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. It remains a single side platform, unstaffed, with no station building beyond a small shelter.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The original waiting shelter was built entirely by local volunteers — they felled, milled and assembled the timber themselves after the town agreed to fund the station's 480,000-yen construction.