Kawashiri

Known weekday departures: 119/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 119/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:40 / 23:27

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (11)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Kagoshima Main Line: Nishi-Kumamoto ⇄ Tomiai

Kawashiri Station opened on 11 August 1894 as a Kyushu Railway stop in what is now the Minami-ku ward of Kumamoto. Nationalisation followed on 1 July 1907. The station was damaged in an air raid on 12 August 1945, and freight handling ceased on 1 April 1967. JR Kyushu took it over at the 1987 JNR privatisation. The second-generation station building, rebuilt in December 1917, remains in use. SUGOCA service began on 1 December 2012, and the layout was simplified in March 2019 when the former platform 2 was removed and its tracks taken up, leaving two side platforms. On 1 October 2023 the station was converted from an outsourced operation to a directly managed JR Kyushu facility.

The station was used as a filming location for the 2011 film I Wish (Kiseki), directed by Hirokazu Koreeda.