History
Hizen-Nagano Station opened on 1 March 1935 as an intermediate stop on the new private Kitakyushu Railway track between Yamamoto and Imari, in what is today Imari, Saga Prefecture. The Kitakyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937, after which Japanese Government Railways assumed control and incorporated the route into the Chikuhi Line. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, which still operates the unstaffed single side platform 14.3 km from Yamamoto. Its old timber station building, of traditional Japanese design, has since been bought from JR Kyushu by the local community and is being maintained by volunteer preservation activity.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
After the original wooden station building fell into disrepair in the 2000s, the local community bought it outright from JR Kyushu and now maintains it as a preserved structure rather than letting it be demolished.