Sagara-Toshima

Weekday departures: 22/day · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:47 / 21:13

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Sample service dates: weekday 24 September 2026; Saturday 26 September 2026. Extra operating dates are not included.

Timetable data as of 25 September 2026.

• Yunomae Line: Sagarahanganjoji ⇄ Higo-Nishinomura

Sagara-Toshima Station opened on 20 September 2026, the day the Kumagawa Railway's Yunomae Line reopened end to end after the July 2020 floods. It is the relocated and renamed successor of Kawamura Station: as a flood precaution the operator rebuilt the stop about 950 m toward Hitoyoshi-Onsen, outside the assumed inundation zone and near Toshima Sugawara Shrine. The operator chose the name Sagara-Toshima because the new site is near the shrine. The move was approved in November 2023 and the new name was announced in March 2026. Sagara-Toshima is station number 3, as Kawamura was, 3.5 km from Hitoyoshi-Onsen in Sagara Village; it is a ground-level station with one platform and one track.

The former Kawamura Station opened on 15 July 1953 as a Japanese National Railways station, 4.4 km from Hitoyoshi-Onsen. It passed to JR Kyushu with the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 and to the third-sector Kumagawa Railway on 1 October 1989. From 1 April 2009 it carried the naming-rights nickname "Rafting Stones Kawamura Station," and its waiting room was listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on 19 December 2014. Kawamura had been out of service since the Reiwa 2 July torrential rain of 4 July 2020, and on 19 March 2026 a ceremony marked the decision to preserve the old Kawamura station as a disaster heritage site. Kawamura Station closed on 20 September 2026, the day Sagara-Toshima opened.

At the former Kawamura Station, a 93-year-old woman from Sagara Village was appointed honorary stationmaster in 2015 to mark the launch of the sightseeing train "Den-en Symphony"; she served in the "Omotenashi Beppin-tai" hospitality unit that handed out Sagara tea and other treats to the train's riders, and she died on 4 November 2017 at the age of 95. Kawamura was an unstaffed station with a single short platform for four cars, a waiting room and a public phone on the platform but no toilet, set in farmland with scattered settlements and no shops; just east of the old station the Kawabe River meets the Kuma River. Before Sagara-Toshima was built, from May 2021 to November 2024 while the Hitoyoshi-Onsen–Higo-Nishinomura section was closed, the operator ran its "Kuma-chari" rail-cycle ride from the undamaged track at the Toshima Sugawara Shrine crossing, the site of the new station, toward Sagarahanganjoji and back.