Shigetomi

Known weekday departures: 58/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 59/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:27 / 23:46

Busiest hour (known departures): 18:00–19:00 (5)

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).

• JR Nippo Line: Aira ⇄ Ryugamizu

Shigetomi Station opened on 10 June 1901 as part of the very first railway in Kagoshima Prefecture, the original Kagoshima Line from Kagoshima to Kokubu (now Hayato), built by Japanese Government Railways. For its first decades it was an important transfer point for villages across the surrounding area because the neighbouring stations had not yet been built. The current Japanese-style station building dates from a 1950 rebuild. The site became part of the Hisatsu Line in 1927 and the Nippō Main Line in 1932 as the regional network was reshaped. Outsourced operations gave way to an unstaffed regime in March 2015, before the city of Aira contracted a local NPO to staff the office during daytime hours from May 2015.

When Shigetomi opened in 1901, the only neighbouring station to the east was Kajiki; Aira, Chōsa and Kinkō stations had not yet been built, so a wide area of villages across present-day Aira and the former town of Yoshida in what is now Kagoshima city relied on Shigetomi for rail access.