History
Meotoishi Station opened on 7 August 1898 as a station on the privately-owned Imari Railway, and on 28 December that same year passed to the Kyushu Railway through merger. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalised in 1907 the station became part of Imperial Railway Agency's Imari Line. The line was absorbed into the Matsuura Line in 1945, and ownership transitioned to the new Japanese National Railways on 1 June 1949. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1966 and parcel handling on 1 October 1970, when the station became unstaffed. With the JNR privatisation of 1 April 1987 the station was briefly part of JR Kyushu's Matsuura Line, and on 1 April 1988 it transferred to the third-sector Matsuura Railway. The wooden waiting room was lost to a small fire in June 2002 and demolished; a barrier-free connecting passage opened on 27 February 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name comes from the "Meotoishi" (literally "husband-and-wife rocks") — a paired large and small rock in the Arita River near the station that gave the locality its name.