History
Chiwata Station opened on 20 April 1928 as an additional Japanese Government Railways station on what was then the Nagasaki Main Line, hugging the shore of Ōmura Bay in Higashisonogi, Nagasaki Prefecture. When the Nagasaki Main Line designation was reassigned in December 1934, the Haiki–Isahaya track including Chiwata became the Ōmura Line. Freight handling ended in 1962, parcel handling in 1971, and the station became unstaffed in the same year. Control passed to JR Kyushu at the 1987 JNR privatisation, and the present wooden building dates from a 1993 rebuild evoking the 1928 original. The "Futatsuboshi 4047" sightseeing limited express has called here since September 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The wooden seaside station was selected for JR's 2014 Seishun 18 Ticket winter campaign poster, making it a popular photo destination on the Ōmura Bay coast.