History
Hizen-Shiroishi Station opened on 9 March 1930 as Fukuji Station, an intermediate stop on what was then the Ariake Line — a new coastal alternative to the Nagasaki Main Line that Japanese Government Railways was building south from Hizen-Yamaguchi. When the full coastal route was completed on 1 December 1934 the line was redesignated as the Nagasaki Main Line. On 1 April 1940 the station was renamed Hizen-Shiroishi to distinguish it from another Shiroishi Station. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Kyushu; the station was destaffed on 26 March 2016, and a new station building on the south side opened on 15 October 2016 to make way for prefectural road widening.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
From 1 April 1988 to 30 April 1989, Hizen-Shiroishi shared with Ōmachi the unusual distinction of being one of two simultaneously valid starting points for Japan's longest one-way rail ticket — a "double origin" arrangement that resolved only when the Tenpoku Line was abolished in May 1989.