Ishiuchi Dam

Weekday departures: 32/day · Sat & holiday departures: 32/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:00 / 23:40

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (3)

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

• JR Amakusa Misumi Line: Akase ⇄ Hataura

Ishiuchi Dam Station opened on 11 March 1989 on JR Kyushu's Misumi (Amakusa-Misumi) Line, financed as a Misumi-port centennial project by 17 million yen raised from local residents and Misumi-connected donors; a stone monument outside the station commemorates the fundraising. Opening hopes that visitors to the adjacent Ishiuchi Dam would lift line patronage have only partially been borne out. The station is built with a single side platform on the south-eastern side of the tracks, fitted with a simple waiting shelter near the Akase end, and has been unstaffed throughout its history.

Until around 2018 the train-approach chime at Ishiuchi Dam was a recycled disaster-warning recording of the lullaby "Home, Sweet Home"; complaints that the tune was unsettling led to its replacement with a generic chime.