History
Takematsu opened on 25 May 1922 as an addition to what was then the Nagasaki Main Line. The route through the station was redesignated as the Ōmura Line on 1 December 1934, when the Nagasaki Main Line title was assigned to a different alignment. JR Kyushu took over the station on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways, and the original station building lost the war: it had burnt down in the air raid of 30 July 1945. The current building dates from a 2008 reconstruction. The staffed ticket window closed on 1 December 2022 and station-services outsourcing ended on 1 October 2023, leaving Takematsu unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
After the 2024 closure of the Furano–Shintoku section of the Nemuro Main Line shifted Japan's longest one-way ticket route, Takematsu became the south-western terminus of that record-setting itinerary.