Higokoda

Yatsushiro – Higo Tanoura: suspended from 28 July 2026; reopening was expected on 13 October 2026 and is not yet confirmed Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Hisatsu Orange Railway →

Known weekday departures: 23/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 23/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:53 / 20:11

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

These are the departures known from the timetable data (see the date below), not a count of today's actual service: they may include services affected by the notice above.

Timetable data as of 12 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Hisatsu Orange Railway: Yatsushiro ⇄ Hinagu Onsen

Higo-Kōda Station opened on 17 July 1933 as a station on the Ministry of Railways' Kagoshima Main Line. Baggage handling was abolished on 1 September 1970 when CTC was introduced and the station was made unstaffed under simplified contract operation, ending its independent stationmaster post. The original building was demolished in March 1976 and replaced by the present simple structure, simplified-contract operation ended on 1 April 1993, and the station has been fully unstaffed since. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station passed to JR Kyushu, and on 13 March 2004 the section between Yatsushiro and Sendai was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway, where the station was assigned the number OR02 on 1 October 2019.

The "Higo-Kōda" name combines the ancient place name Kōda — whose reading is said to have shifted from "Takada" out of deference to Takagi-no-kami, the deity held to have dwelt there — with the old provincial prefix Higo, added at opening because so many Takada stations existed nationwide.