History
Kawatana Station opened on 20 January 1898 as an intermediate stop on the privately operated Kyushu Railway, the day the line was extended from Haiki to Ōmura. After the Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907, the track was designated as the Nagasaki Main Line on 12 October 1909. On 1 December 1934 a newer inland alignment took that name and the coastal track was reassigned to the Ōmura Line. The station building was relocated on 18 July 1946 from the seaward to the inland side to align with the newly constructed National Route 205. JR Kyushu took over on 1 April 1987, the station became unstaffed on 18 March 2023, and SUGOCA acceptance began on 9 October 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.