History
Michinoo Station opened on 22 July 1897, the same day the private Kyushu Railway laid its initial Nagayo branch north from Urakami (then called Nagasaki Station). Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907, and on 12 October 1909 Japanese Government Railways designated the route from Tosu through Haiki, Ōmura and Michinoo to Nagasaki as the Nagasaki Main Line. When JNR opened the shorter inland 'new line' between Kikitsu, Ichinuno and Urakami on 2 October 1972, the older coastal alignment through Michinoo was reclassified as the Nagayo branch. At privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu; its traditional Japanese-design wooden building remains in use and is staffed by JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Across from the surviving timber station building lies the abandoned platform and track-bed of a second track, removed during a later singling, still visible from the operating side.