History
Higashi-Kaimon Station opened on 22 March 1960 as a stop on the JNR Ibusuki Line, in what is now the Kaimon Jicchō district of Ibusuki. It began life as an unstaffed station handling passengers from railcars only. The line was renamed the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line on 31 October 1963, and at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the stop transferred to JR Kyushu. The above-ground station has a single side platform with one track and no station building, just a small passenger shelter on the platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The platform sign carries an illustration of a horse, a nod to the riding club at the nearby foot of Mount Kaimon.