| Komenotsu Station | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Address: | 40 Komenotsumachi, Izumi-shi, Kagoshima-ken 899-0121 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 32.1222°N 130.342°W |
| Operator: | Hisatsu Orange Railway Co., Ltd. |
| Line: | Hisatsu Orange Railway Line |
| Platforms: | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Structure: | At-grade |
| Original: | Japanese Government Railways |
| Passengers: | 205 |
| Pass Year: | FY2019 |
| Map Type: | Japan Kagoshima Prefecture#Japan |
| Map Dot Label: | Komenotsu Station |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is served by the It is operated by third-sector railway company Hisatsu Orange Railway.[1] [2]
The station consists of two staggered side platforms at street level. During the JNR era, the station was manned with a wooden station building, and there was a freight siding and platform on the east side of the station, as well as several small freight handling sidings on the west side, where freight cars parked at the neighboring Izumi Station were shunted and freight was loaded and unloaded at the nearby Yonotsu Port.However, when freight handling at Izumi Station was abolished in 1984, freight handling at this station was also abolished. and all but a few of the sidings were removed and the station building was demolished in 1985 and the current prefabricated station building was completed the same year.
Komenotsu Station was opened on 15 October 1923 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Sendai Line, which was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR Kyushu. On 13 March 2004, with the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen, the station was transferred to the Hisatsu Orange Railway.
The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2019 was 205 people. [3]