Takarabe

Known weekday departures: 16/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:17 / 22:50

Busiest hour (known departures): 18:00–19:00 (3)

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: Kitamata ⇄ Isoichi

Takarabe Station opened on 28 April 1929 as the southern terminus of the then Kokutō East Line, which Japanese Government Railways was building south from Nishi-Miyakonojō. Construction across the flat ground reportedly proceeded without a single fatality, an unusual record for the era. The line was extended south to Ōsumi-Ōkawara on 1 November 1931 and joined to the wider Kagoshima route by December 1932, at which point Takarabe and the rest of the Kokutō East Line were absorbed into the Nippō Main Line. The station has been unstaffed since baggage handling ended in February 1984 and was rebuilt as a community-hall hybrid in March 2008. JR Kyushu took over on 1 April 1987.

Looking from the Kokura end of the Nippō Main Line, Takarabe is the first station inside Kagoshima Prefecture and the eastern limit of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima branch.