It houses a waiting area, a restaurant and a community interaction centre but the ticket window is not staffed.

[2][3][4][5] Takarabe Station was opened on 28 April 1929 by Japanese Government Railways (JGR) as the southern terminus of the then Kokutō East Line (国都東線) from Nishi-Miyakonojō.

By 1932, the track had been linked up with other networks north and south, and through traffic had been established from Kokura, through this station to Kagoshima.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.

[6][7][8] In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 159 passengers daily Media related to Takarabe Station at Wikimedia Commons This Kagoshima Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.