Makurazaki

Known weekday departures: 6/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 6/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:04 / 20:07

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (1)

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).

• Ibusuki Makurazaki Line: Satsuma-Itashiki

Makurazaki Station first opened on 10 March 1931 as the terminus of the private Nansatsu Railway (later Kagoshima Kōtsū) line from Kaseda, and on 31 October 1963 became a two-line station when the JNR Ibusuki Makurazaki Line was extended to Makurazaki from Nishi-Ei. JNR paid Nansatsu Railway access fees for the use of the station until the parallel Makurazaki Line was suspended after a June 1983 flood and formally abolished on 18 March 1984, but the building and grounds stayed in Kagoshima Kōtsū's hands until 2006. JR Kyushu inherited the stop on 1 April 1987. In 2006 the land was sold to a local supermarket chain, the old station building was demolished and the station shifted roughly 100 m toward Kagoshima; a new building funded by citizen donations opened on 28 April 2013 and that year won a Good Design Award.

The "Makurazaki Station" calligraphy on the current station building was rendered in sumo-text style by the 36th Kimura Shōnosuke, the head referee of the Japan Sumo Association, who is a native of the city.