Sanrigi Station

The station is served by the Hōhi Main Line and is located 15.8 km from the starting point of the line at {{STN|Kumamoto|x}}.

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks at grade with a siding. The station building is a modern concrete structure which houses a waiting area, a staffed ticket window as well as the Kikuyō town information centre. Access to the island platform is by means of a level crossing.{{cite web|url=http://hacchi-no-he.net/line/houhi/station/0090_sanrigi.htm|title=三里木|trans-title=Sanrigi|accessdate=22 April 2018|website=hacchi-no-he.net}}{{Cite book|last=Kawashima|first=Ryōzō|script-title=ja: 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第6巻 熊本 大分 エリア|year=2013 |publisher=Kodansha|isbn=9784062951654|trans-title=Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 6 Kumamoto Ōita Area|language=Japanese|pages=34, 77}}

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 window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.{{cite web|url=http://www.jrte.co.jp/branch/kumamoto.html|title=熊本支店内各駅|trans-title=Stations within the Kumamoto Branch|accessdate=17 April 2018|website=JRTE website}}{{cite web|url=http://jr-mars.dyndns.org/view/station/view1.php?stat_no=600396|title=三里木駅|trans-title=Sanrigi Station|accessdate=22 April 2018|website=jr-mars.dyndns.org}} See images of tickets sold.

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file:Sanrigi Station 2.JPG|A view of the platforms and tracks. The siding can be seen to the right.

On 21 June 1914, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened the {{Nihongo|Miyagi Light Rail Line|宮地軽便線|}} (later the Miyagi Line) from {{STN|Kumamoto|x}} eastwards to {{STN|Higo-Ōzu|x}}. On the same day, Sanrigi station was opened as one of several intermediate stations along the track. By 1928, the track had been extended eastward and had linked up with the {{Nihongo|Inukai Line|犬飼線|}} which had been built westward from {{STN|Ōita|x}}. On 2 December 1928, the entire track from Kumamoto to Ōita was designated as the Hōhi Main Line. 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.{{Teishajo|I|228}}{{Teishajo|II|744}}

In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 419 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 235th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.{{Cite web|title=駅別乗車人員上位300駅（2020年度）|url=https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/company/info/data/pdf/2020ekibetsu.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2023-09-08}}

• Kikuyo Town Kikuyo Nishi Elementary School

• List of railway stations in Japan

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