Hyuga-Maeda

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:10 / 22:20

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Kitto Line: Takaharu ⇄ Takasaki Shinden

Hyūga Maeda Station was opened by Japanese Government Railways on 1 March 1947 as an additional stop on the existing Kitto Line track, 22.2 km from Miyakonojō. Small-package freight handling ended on 20 September 1962 and baggage handling on 20 February 1971, when the station also became unstaffed. The current steel single-storey station shelter dates from March 1978, replacing the earlier wooden building. JR Kyushu inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The station consists of a single side platform with no station building — only a waiting shelter on the platform — and is reached by a steep ramp leading up from the access road.

Despite sitting on a line opened in 1912–1913, Hyūga Maeda itself was only added as a post-war infill stop in March 1947.