Sencho

Weekday departures: 83/day · Sat & holiday departures: 83/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:14 / 23:48

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (7)

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• Kagoshima Main Line: Arisa ⇄ Shin-Yatsushiro

Senchō Station opened on 1 June 1926 as a station of the Ministry of Railways on the Kagoshima Main Line. Freight and baggage handling ended on 1 September 1970, when the station was simultaneously made unstaffed. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station passed to JR Kyushu, and SUGOCA service began on 1 December 2012. Platform numbers were assigned for the first time at the 14 March 2015 timetable revision. The layout is two opposed side platforms serving two ground-level tracks, connected by a footbridge; the station is unstaffed but is fitted with a short-distance ticket vending machine and is occasionally staffed in the mornings and at midday.

The "Senchō" name comes from the original Senchō Village, formed by merging four villages whose combined area came close to 1,000 cho (about 9.9 square kilometres) of land — the literal meaning of "senchō".