Shirasawa (Kagoshima)

Known weekday departures: 12/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 12/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:15 / 21:17

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (2)

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).

• Ibusuki Makurazaki Line: Satsuma-Itashiki ⇄ Satsuma-Shioya

Shirasawa Station was opened on 31 October 1963 in the Shirasawa-Nishi neighbourhood of Makurazaki, on the day JNR extended the Ibusuki Line south from Nishi-Ei to Makurazaki and renamed it the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line. It started out as an unstaffed passenger stop and has never had a station building, only a single side platform entered directly from outside. JR Kyushu took over the stop at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. Nearby, on the former Makurazaki Airport site, are a prefectural disaster-prevention heliport and a solar power plant.