History
Mizunarikawa Station opened on 31 October 1963 in the Beppu neighbourhood of Eichō, now part of Minamikyūshū, when the JNR Ibusuki Line was extended south to Makurazaki and renamed the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line. It was set up as an unstaffed passenger station with one side platform and a single track, and it never gained a station building. At privatisation on 1 April 1987 the stop was transferred to JR Kyushu. The station serves as a trailhead for the "Sea Horse Walk," a coastal footpath running along the shore to Ei-Ōkawa Station that passes the Tatsunootoshigo House and the unusually shaped Saitate Heishu (Kamafuta) Shrine.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station icon shows shrimp against Mount Kaimon, marking the area's lobster and prawn farming; a former JR weekend train to Nishi-Ei was named "Iseebi-gō" ("Spiny Lobster") in the same spirit.