History
Nonaka Station is in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on the Nishi-Kyūshū Line operated by the third-sector Matsuura Railway. The station opened on 10 March 1990, after the line had already transitioned from JR Kyushu's Matsuura Line to Matsuura Railway operation in 1988. It consists of a single ground-level side platform with a bi-directional track, 86.2 km from Arita; there is no station building, only a small waiting room and a toilet. The station has been unstaffed throughout its existence and is served only by local trains, the rapid services bypassing it without stopping.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Nonaka opened in 1990, two years after the line had been spun off to Matsuura Railway — meaning the third-sector operator, not the predecessor JR Kyushu, was the one to build the stop.