Tamana Station
is a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line operated by JR Kyushu in Tamana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Lines The station is served by the Kagoshima Main Line and is located 168.6 km from the starting point of the line at . Layout The station consists of a side and an island platform serving three tracks at grade. The station building is a concrete structure of modern design and houses a kiosk, an enclosed waiting room and a staffed ticket window. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge. Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket counter which is equipped with a Midori no Madoguchi facility. Adjacent stations History The privately run Kyushu Railway had opened a stretch of track between and the (now closed) Chitosegawa temporary stop on 11 December 1889. After several phases of expansion northwards and southwards, by February 1891, the line stretched from south to . In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended south with this station opening as the new southern terminus on 1 April 1891 with