History
Minami-Kagoshima Station opened on 1 October 1944 as a station of the Japanese Government Railways, in what is now the Minami-Kōrimoto district of Kagoshima City. On 31 October 1963, the line through the station was renamed the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line, and the station passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. The above-ground JR platform is an island platform reached from the station building by a level crossing; the adjacent Kagoshima City Tram Minami-Kagoshima-eki-mae stop has its own pair of platforms on the parallel street. JR's SUGOCA IC card became usable on 1 December 2012, and the station was destaffed on 30 May 2020 with the introduction of the remote-assistance "ANSWER" system.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The adjacent Kagoshima City Tram stop began life as "Keibajō-mae" ("in front of the racecourse"), was renamed "Minami-kō Iriguchi" on 1 October 1956, and finally took its current "Minami-Kagoshima-eki-mae" form on 1 January 1967.