History
Kami-Ijūin Station opened on 11 October 1913 as Manjuishi Station along the Sendai Line of the Imperial Railway Agency. The line was renamed the Sendai Main Line in 1924 and absorbed into the Kagoshima Main Line in October 1927. The site sits at 141 metres above sea level, the highest point on the Kagoshima Main Line, with a continuous downgrade of more than nine kilometres towards Kagoshima-Chūō. The station took its current name on 15 December 1949, and the present building dates from 1985, when the opening of nearby Shōyō High School pushed passenger numbers beyond the capacity of the older structure. JR Kyushu took over operation on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On 12 January 1914 the Sakurajima earthquake closed the line between Kagoshima and Ijūin overnight, and crowds of refugees from Kagoshima city gathered at the then Manjuishi Station, where the village and its youth association set up a relief kitchen on the station forecourt.