History
Nagasaki Station is the terminus of the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen and the Nagasaki Main Line, and the westernmost Shinkansen station in Japan. It opened on 5 April 1905 when the Kyushu Railway extended its line from the original Nagasaki Station (today's Urakami) to a new building closer to the city centre; the older terminus was renamed Urakami. Nationalisation came in 1907 and the route became the Nagasaki Main Line in 1909. The atomic bombing of 9 August 1945 burned the station; the 1949 third-generation building was succeeded in 2000 by a domed fourth-generation structure with Amu Plaza Nagasaki. The current elevated station opened on 28 March 2020, and the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen began service on 23 September 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since the 23 September 2022 opening of the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, Nagasaki has been the westernmost high-speed-rail terminus in Japan.