History
Suwa opened on 11 March 1989 as an addition by JR Kyushu to the existing Ōmura Line track, with the entire 20-million-yen construction cost borne by the railway itself. SUGOCA IC-card acceptance began on 1 December 2012, and the station was made unstaffed on 16 March 2013. To clear space for piers of the new Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen viaduct, the line was shifted west on 6 August 2017 and a temporary platform towards Takematsu was put into use that day. The station has a single side platform and a small original station building; SUGOCA card readers and an automatic ticket vending machine have been installed on the platform since the building closed to passengers.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
In August 2017 the entire platform was shifted west so that piers for the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen viaduct could be built where the original line ran — Suwa continued operating from a temporary structure throughout.