Naka-Sasebo

History

Naka-Sasebo Station opened on 15 July 1961 as a station of the Japanese National Railways Matsuura Line, serving central Sasebo, Nagasaki. It was destaffed on 1 October 1970. With the 1987 privatisation of JNR, control passed briefly to JR Kyushu, before transferring to the third-sector Matsuura Railway on 1 April 1988 when the line was reorganised as the Nishi-Kyūshū Line. The station occupies an elevated single side platform with no permanent building, and is now part of one of Japan's shortest inter-station segments — Naka-Sasebo and the next stop, Sasebo-Chūō, are only 200 metres apart.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

The 200-metre gap to Sasebo-Chūō is tied with one Chikuhō Electric Railway segment as Japan's shortest interval between two railway stations.