History
Satsuma-Imaizumi Station opened on 19 December 1934 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railways Ibusuki Line, then the new southern extension out of Kagoshima toward the Ibusuki area. Freight handling ended on 20 August 1962, and on 31 October 1963 the line was renamed the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line. The original station building, rebuilt in 1952, was refurbished in a Western style in 1986. Parcel handling was dropped on 8 March 1983, and on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu at the privatisation of JNR. Today it is an unstaffed at-grade station with a single island platform linked to the building by a footbridge, in the Iwamoto district of Ibusuki.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's neighbourhood preserves the former villa of the Imaizumi-Shimazu branch family — the birthplace of Tenshōin (Atsuhime), the Satsuma-born consort of Tokugawa Iesada.