Aino (Nagasaki)

Weekday departures: 34/day · Sat & holiday departures: 30/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:18 / 21:55

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 11 May 2026.

• Shimabara Railway Line: Abazaki ⇄ Isahayahigasikoukou

Aino Station opened on 20 June 1911 as Aino-mura Station (愛野村駅) on the Shimabara Railway in what is today Aino-machi-kō, Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture. On 5 May 1923 the Onsen Light Railway also began running services to Aino-mura; that company became Onsen Railway on 31 May 1924 and was transferred to Unzen Railway on 2 October 1933 before being abolished on 16 August 1938. The station was renamed Aino on 5 November 1960. It became a contracted station on 1 August 1971, freight handling ended on 30 September 1984, and in September 1986 a new church-style station building with a pointed roof was completed. On 14 March 2010 the station was repainted in its current scheme.

'Aino' is a compound place name coined in 1889, when the villages of Aitsu and Noi in Minamitakaki District merged to form Aino village. On the same line is Azuma Station: written together with Aino, the two names evoke the phrase 愛しの吾が妻 (itoshi no wagatsuma, 'my beloved wife'), giving Aino its modern reputation as the 'Sacred Place of Love' for couples and devoted spouses. The Shimabara Railway sells a 'Saiai Ninteishō' (Beloved Certificate) — packaged with a one-way ticket from Aino to Azuma — at both stations. In 2009 a public competition run in a tie-up with the Japan Romanticist Association chose the station building's new paint design from an entry by a student from Nagasaki. A monument marking the former Onsen Light Railway Aino-mura station and a 'Smiling Statue' stand in the forecourt. From here Shimatetsu Bus routes serve the western half of the Shimabara Peninsula — even before the Shimabara Railway line was cut back in 2008, the bus to Kazusa could be quicker than the rail route.