Heisei

Weekday departures: 97/day · Sat & holiday departures: 97/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:27 / 23:17

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (9)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Hōhi Line: Kumamoto (JR Kyushu) ⇄ Minami-Kumamoto

Heisei Station is a small JR Kyushu stop on the Hōhi Main Line in the Chūō-ku ward of Kumamoto, opened on 15 July 1992 as an infill station between Minami-Kumamoto and Kumamoto. It was originally a single-platform unmanned halt; a passing loop with a second platform was added when the Hōhi Main Line through Kumamoto was electrified on 1 October 1999. The station was staffed for the first time on 18 March 2006, and SUGOCA IC service began on 1 December 2012. The ticket booth closed on 12 March 2022, and on 1 October 2023 the station was converted from an outsourced operation to a directly managed JR Kyushu facility, though without a resident stationmaster.

The station shares its name with the Heisei era (1989–2019) and is one of only a handful of Japanese stations named after a 20th-century reign name, alongside Shōwa in Kanagawa and the two Taishō stations in Osaka and Nagasaki.