History
Nishi-Ōchi Station opened on 1 March 1935 as an intermediate stop on the private Kitakyushu Railway's western extension from Yamamoto to Imari. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1937, becoming part of the Chikuhi Line under Japanese Government Railways. Passenger duties were outsourced in 1970, and the station was made unstaffed on 22 March 1983. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR Kyushu. Once an island-platform station with two tracks, one platform face has since been removed, leaving a single side platform with a short shelter. The wooden station building was demolished and the area now lies on the Saga–Karatsu boundary near the former Karatsu coal mines.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
演歌歌手 Murata Hideo grew up in the shopping street that once stood in front of this station, when the area was a bustling hub of the Karatsu coalfield.