Ōsumi-Ōkawara

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:28 / 23:00

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• JR Nippō Line: Kita-Naganoda ⇄ Kitamata

Ōsumi-Ōkawara Station was opened on 1 November 1931 as the southern terminus of the Japanese Government Railways Kokuto-East Line, extending from Nishi-Miyakonojō. By December 1932 the Kokuto-East Line had been linked with adjacent lines so that through-traffic was established from Kokura through this station to Kagoshima, and on 6 December 1932 the entire route was redesignated the Nippō Main Line. Freight handling ended on 20 September 1962 and CTC introduction on 1 October 1979 made the station unstaffed. It passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 at privatisation, and a new log-cabin-style station building, built using locally grown cedar, opened on 27 March 2010.

The 2010 station rebuild was paid for by Soo City rather than the railway: about 90 local residents joined a commemorative ride from Miyakonojō and 400 more attended a ceremony featuring children playing the gottan, a Satsuma three-stringed instrument, and a performance by the Sueyoshi Kishin Daiko drumming troupe.