History
Urakami Station opened on 22 July 1897 as the original Nagasaki Station, the Kyushu Railway terminus of the line from Nagayo. When that line was extended into central Nagasaki on 5 April 1905, the old terminus was renamed Urakami and the new one took the Nagasaki name. Nationalisation came on 1 July 1907 and the route became the Nagasaki Main Line in 1909. The station was destroyed in the atomic bombing of 9 August 1945, with about 65 staff among the dead; the present concrete building opened in 1953. The line was electrified in 1976. On 28 March 2020 the station reopened on elevated tracks ahead of the 2022 Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, after which limited-express service through Urakami ended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
A stone monument in front of the station, inscribed "Site of Nagasaki Station," marks the spot where the city's main railway terminus stood from 1897 until the line was extended to its present location in 1905.