History
Ichinuno Station opened on 2 October 1972 when Japanese National Railways inaugurated a shorter inland route for the Nagasaki Main Line between Kikitsu and Urakami, bypassing the longer coastal alignment via Nagayo. The new station was one of several intermediate stops along this 'new line,' located 109.4 km from the Tosu starting point in the city of Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture. At privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, and on 1 December 2012 SUGOCA IC card service began. With the opening of the West Kyushu Shinkansen on 23 September 2022 the conventional segment from Hizen-Hama through Ichinuno to Nagasaki was de-electrified. The unstaffed station consists of an island platform reached by an underpass.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When trains take the inland new-line route past Ichinuno, station departure boards along the Nagasaki Main Line specifically mark the service '経由 Ichinuno' to distinguish it from the parallel Nagayo branch.