Ichinokawa

Weekday departures: 26/day · Sat & holiday departures: 26/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:34 / 23:34

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Hōhi Line: Uchinomaki ⇄ Akamizu

Ichinokawa opened on 10 March 1960 as an unstaffed additional stop on the existing Hōhi Main Line between Uchinomaki and Akamizu, built as a petitioned station with the entire 12.8 million-yen cost borne by the local community. JR Kyushu took control with the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes damaged track on the Higo-Ōzu–Bungo-Ogi section from April 2016 and the station was suspended; service from Aso east to Bungo-Ogi resumed on 9 July 2016, but the segment from Higo-Ōzu west to Aso through Ichinokawa remained closed until JR Kyushu completed repairs and reopened it on 8 August 2020, restoring through service between Aso and Kumamoto.

Ichinokawa was a citizen-funded request station from day one: when it opened in 1960, the entire 12.8 million-yen construction cost was paid by the local community rather than by Japanese National Railways.