Timetable information
Known weekday departures: 32/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 32/day
First / last known departure (weekday): 6:22 / 23:18
Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (3)
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).
Adjacent stations
- JR Amakusa Misumi Line: Sumiyoshi (Kumamoto) ⇄ Uto (Kumamoto)
Location
History
Midorikawa Station opened on 1 April 1960 as a Japanese National Railways stop serving diesel-railcar passengers only, in what is now the city of Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture. The station is 4.0 km from the Misumi Line's Uto starting point and consists of a single side platform at grade with no station building. It has always been unstaffed. At privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, whose 'Amakusa-Misumi Line' branding now appears alongside the formal Misumi Line name. The surrounding area is a mixture of paddy fields and small settlements, with land to the north of the station built up on reclaimed ground.
Notes
The station's name sign carries an illustration of nearby Awashima Shrine's miniature torii, the gate-crawling ritual for which the shrine is well known throughout the region.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: MK Products at Japanese Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-08-18