Sashiki

Weekday departures: 25/day · Sat & holiday departures: 25/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:26 / 22:55

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Hisatsu Orange Railway: Uminoura ⇄ Yunoura

Sashiki Station opened on 15 April 1925 as the terminus of the (first) Hisatsu Line, in what is now the town of Ashikita, Kumamoto Prefecture. When the coastal route was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927, the station became a through stop. Freight services ended in 1984 and baggage handling in 1985, and it passed to JR Kyushu at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. On 13 March 2004 the partial opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen prompted transfer of the Yatsushiro–Sendai stretch to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway, taking Sashiki — formerly served by some JR limited expresses — with it. It is now run as a kan'i itaku contracted station by a local NPO.

The wooden station building has been in continuous use since 1925, making it the second-oldest on the Hisatsu Orange Railway — only Hinagu Onsen, completed in 1923, is older.