History
Shimabara-Funatsu Station opened on 24 September 1913 as Minato-Shinchi Station, was renamed Shimabara-Minato on 16 July 1918, and on 22 April 1922 the Kuchinotsu Railway extended the line south from here to Dōzaki. Freight handling ended in March 1957 and the stop was renamed Minami-Shimabara on 5 November 1960. The 1913 wooden two-storey building stood for over a century before replacement: a provisional structure was used from 13 February 2015 while the present building was inaugurated on 16 June 2015. The station took its current name on 1 October 2019 to avoid confusion with Minami-Shimabara City. It sits 42.3 km from Isahaya with an attached depot and refuelling facilities.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
There are no ticket machines and staff do not collect tickets (fares are paid on board one-person trains), but the manned window — staffed until late evening — is one of the few on the Shimabara Railway Line that still issues kōken hard-paper tickets.