History
Nakafukura Station was opened on 1 February 1958 as a small intermediate halt on the Hisatsu Line, between Kareigawa and Hyōkiyama, in what is now Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture. It has always been unstaffed, with no station building — just a wooden shelter on a single side platform serving one bi-directional track. The station passed from Japanese National Railways to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. In fiscal 2016 it averaged only 3 boarding passengers per day, making it among the least-used stops on the line that runs through the mountainous Kirishima district.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.