Ibusuki Makurazaki Line
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A Nanohana rapid service A Ibusuki no Tamatebako limited express The Ibusuki Makurazaki Line （指宿枕崎線, Ibusuki Makurazaki-sen） is a railway line in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company （JR Kyushu）.
It connects Kagoshima-Chūō Station in Kagoshima, to Makurazaki Station in Makurazaki, paralleling the eastern and southern coasts of Satsuma Peninsula.
Excluding the Okinawa Urban Monorail in Okinawa, this is the southernmost JR railway line in Japan, with Nishi-Ōyama Station being the southernmost station overall.
Most local and rapid services are driver-only operated; only some trains in the morning are staffed by a conductor.
There are also trains that continue onwards to Kagoshima Station on the Kagoshima Main Line; once in the morning and twice in the evening.
The line is operationally divided into two sections.
The section between Kagoshima-Chūō and Yamakawa functions as one of Kagoshima's commuter rail lines.
As such, there are relatively many local trains.
From Kagoshima-Chūō, there is roughly one train per 20 minutes to Goino, one every 20 to 40 minutes to Kiire, and one per one hour to Ibusuki or Yamakawa.
After the timetable change in March 2017, the shortest interval between trains on the line is 6 minutes, at Kiire Station.
The Ibusuki no Tamatebako limited express and Nanohana （なのはな） rapid services operate on this section.
The limited express train runs three times a day, and the rapid train runs three times a day southbound, four times a day northbound.
The section between Yamakawa and Makurazaki is an extremely quiet local line.
During the daytime, there is no train service for six hours.
In this section, all but Nishi-Ei are unmanned stations, including Makurazaki, the terminus.
The Nanohana DX （なのはなDX） rapid service was disc...