History
Taniyama was opened on 7 December 1930 by the Ministry of Railways at Kamifukumoto in the then-Taniyama Town when the Ibusuki Line was inaugurated between Nishi-Kagoshima (now Kagoshima-Chūō) and Goino. The line was renamed the Ibusuki-Makurazaki Line on 31 October 1963, and the station passed to JR Kyushu in the JNR break-up of 1 April 1987. From 2011 onward a continuous grade-separation project relocated the station in stages through a temporary structure, and on 26 March 2016 it reopened as an elevated station some 100 metres closer to Jigenji. On 30 May 2020 the remote Smart Support Station 'ANSWER' system was introduced, leaving the station unstaffed except for parts of the morning and evening peaks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Taniyama hosts the southernmost full-size automatic ticket gates of any JR-group station; if simpler IC-only readers are counted, the southernmost is Kiire on the same line.