Tatsutaguchi

Known weekday departures: 97/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 97/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:28 / 23:29

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

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).

• Hohi Line: Musashizuka ⇄ Tokai-Gakuen-mae

Tatsutaguchi Station opened on 21 June 1914 when the Japanese Government Railways inaugurated the Miyaji Light Rail Line eastwards from Kumamoto to Higo-Ōzu. The line was extended to meet the Inukai Line built west from Ōita, and on 2 December 1928 the through route from Kumamoto to Ōita was redesignated the Hōhi Main Line, with Tatsutaguchi as one of its intermediate stops 8.9 km from Kumamoto. Baggage handling ended in 1984 and the station passed to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987. SUGOCA IC card service began on 1 December 2012, and on 12 March 2022 the station became unstaffed.

Despite its modest average of 557 passengers a day in fiscal 2020, Tatsutaguchi is the closest JR station to Kumamoto University's Kurokami main campus, and it appears in episode 10 of the TV anime Girls Band Cry as the station nearest the protagonist's family home.