Satsuma-Taki

Weekday departures: 26/day · Sat & holiday departures: 26/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:55 / 22:57

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Hisatsu Orange Railway: Nishikata ⇄ Kusamichi

Satsuma Taki Station opened on 1 May 1952 as a Japanese Government Railways stop on the Kagoshima Main Line, between Nishikata and Kusamichi. Despite originally being staffed with a wooden station building, the surrounding area was thinly populated and ridership stayed low: ticket and gate operations were withdrawn just 11 years later on 10 May 1963, and CTC-driven full unstaffing followed on 1 April 1970. The wooden station building was demolished in March 1976. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the station passed to JR Kyushu, and on 13 March 2004 — when the Kyushu Shinkansen opened — it was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway. The station sits on a sharp curve, with the main-line (platform 2) track built with deep cant to allow express trains to pass at speed.

Because the line curves sharply through the station, the main-line track has deep cant — trains that stop on platform 2 visibly tilt at rest.