History
Kusamichi Station opened on 1 July 1922 as an intermediate stop on the Japanese Government Railways Sendai Line, which was absorbed into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. The Japanese National Railways operated the small station until privatisation on 1 April 1987, when it passed to JR Kyushu. Freight handling had been discontinued in 1961 and baggage operations ended in 1970, after which the station became unattended. The current station building was erected in July 1980. With the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen on 13 March 2004, the parallel coastal section of the Kagoshima Main Line was transferred from JR Kyushu to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway, which has operated the station since.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name preserves a place-name that has otherwise vanished from the local map: when Mizuhiki village was merged into Sendai City in 1951, the "Kusamichi" district was split and the name was dropped from administrative use; today only the adjacent Kusamichi River and this station carry it.