History
Jigenji opened on 13 March 1988 as a station of JR Kyushu's Ibusuki-Makurazaki Line in Jigenjichō, Kagoshima. It originally had only a single platform and track, like neighbouring Kōrimoto and Usuki, but was upgraded around 1992 to a two-side-platform overhead-concourse station with a passing loop. SUGOCA contactless ticketing became available on 1 December 2012. On 26 March 2016, with the completion of the grade-separation project between Taniyama and Jigenji, the station reopened as an elevated stop, and locally terminating trains were added to the timetable. The remote-assistance ANSWER system was introduced on 30 May 2020, leaving the station unstaffed outside parts of the morning and evening peaks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Jigenji Temple, the namesake of the station, was said to date from the Asuka period but was destroyed during the anti-Buddhist purges that followed the Meiji Restoration; the temple grounds now form Jigenji Park.