History
Ijūin Station opened on 11 October 1913 when the Railway Bureau's Sendai Line was extended from Higashi-Ichiki to Kagoshima. From 1 April 1914 it was the eastern terminus of the privately built Nansatsu Railway (later Kagoshima Kōtsū Makurazaki Line), an interchange that lasted until that line was abolished on 18 March 1984 following typhoon damage. The Sendai Line was renamed the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. Freight handling ended on 1 February 1984, parcel service on 14 March 1985, and the station passed to JR Kyushu at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. A Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened on 19 February 1988. The current overhead-style station building, the third generation here, opened on 6 June 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
From 1949 until the Makurazaki Line's 1984 closure, the connecting Nansatsu Railway operated through-services from this station onto JNR tracks all the way to Kagoshima Station; service was expanded to three round-trips on 11 November 1954.