History
Kushima Station opened on 15 April 1935 as Fukushima-Nakamachi, an intermediate stop on the then Shibushi Line, on the same day the line was extended north to its new terminus at Yowara. Located in Kushima in Miyazaki Prefecture, the station sits 74.4 km from the line origin at Minami-Miyazaki. The station was renamed Kushima on 1 October 1959. The route became the Nichinan Line on 8 May 1963, and the station passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. It was destaffed on 1 April 2004 and reorganised as a kan'i-itaku station. A new station building was completed in March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Most of the present station building is occupied by "Kushima Eki no Eki", a city-run produce-and-seafood marketplace; the station is leased from JR Kyushu by Kushima City, which then sub-lets the larger part to private operators.