Tateno (Kumamoto)

Weekday departures: 38/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:55 / 23:14

Busiest hour: 17:00–18:00 (4)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Hōhi Line: Akamizu ⇄ Seta (Kumamoto)

Tateno opened on 11 November 1916 as the eastern terminus of the Miyaji Light Rail Line, which JGR was extending east from Kumamoto. It became a through-station on 25 January 1918 when the track was pushed on to Miyaji, and on 2 December 1928 the Kumamoto - Ōita route was incorporated into the Hōhi Main Line; the Tateno - Takamori branch was separated as the Takamori Line the same day. The Takamori Line was transferred to the third-sector Minami-Aso Railway on 1 April 1986, and Tateno passed to JR Kyushu at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The April 2016 Kumamoto earthquake closed the station; JR services resumed on 8 August 2020 and Minami-Aso through-services on 15 July 2023.

To climb the 190-metre altitude gap to the next station at Akamizu, JR trains leaving Tateno perform a three-stage switchback - reversing twice on dedicated tracks outside the station - one of only three JR Kyushu locations ever to have used the technique.