History
Senryūgataki Station opened on 25 January 1939 as Senryū Station on the Japanese Government Railways' Imari Line (later the Matsuura Line), in Emukae-chō Tanomoto-men, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The site originally lay slightly west of the current position, closer to today's Inotsuki. The station witnessed an imperial visit on 22 May 1949 when the Shōwa emperor's post-war tour stopped at the local colliery, then in 1962 the surrounding bota-yama spoil heap collapsed in heavy rain and buried the yard. Freight handling ended in 1968, parcels in 1970 — leaving the station unstaffed — and JR Kyushu inherited the stop at the 1987 privatisation. On 1 April 1988 the line was transferred to the third-sector Matsuura Railway as part of its Nishi-Kyūshū Line and the station took its present name. The current concrete waiting room, designed by architect Norihiko Dan, dates from 1996.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The current 1996 concrete waiting room was designed by architect Norihiko Dan, an unusually high-profile commission for a rural unstaffed third-sector halt.