History
Nagayo opened on 22 July 1897 in Yoshimuda-gō, Nagayo Town, Nishisonogi District, on what is now JR Kyushu's Nagasaki Main Line (Nagayo branch). Freight handling ended on 15 February 1962, and JR Kyushu took over the station with the JNR break-up in April 1987. Construction of an elevated station building began in February 1997 and the new depot — with its butterfly-themed stained-glass windows — entered service on 1 November 1997. SUGOCA contactless ticketing was introduced on 1 December 2012, the staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi closed on 11 March 2022, and the station was returned to direct JR Kyushu operation on 1 October 2023 after the prior contract arrangement ended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
A wheel from JNR Class C57 locomotive No. 100 is displayed at the east entrance, commemorating an atomic-bomb relief train that departed from Nagayo to carry the wounded on 9 August 1945.