History
Fukushima-Imamachi Station opened on 15 April 1935 as 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, it sits 77.2 km from the line origin at Minami-Miyazaki. Freight handling ended on 1 May 1960 and baggage handling on 1 February 1984. The route was redesignated the Nichinan Line on 8 May 1963, and the station passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. The unstaffed station has two side platforms linked by a level crossing and a substantial concrete-block station building used as a waiting room.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When typhoon damage from 2022 suspended part of the Nichinan Line, Fukushima-Imamachi spent over a year acting as a temporary turnaround terminus for southbound trains running only as far as here.