Higashisono

Weekday departures: 33/day · Sat & holiday departures: 33/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:09 / 23:14

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Nagasaki Main Line: Ookusa ⇄ Kikitsu

Higashisono Station traces back to Higashisono Signal Box, opened by Japanese National Railways on 1 October 1961 on the existing Nagasaki Main Line. The facility was upgraded to a full passenger station on 1 October 1966. On 2 October 1972 a shorter inland bypass between Kikitsu and Urakami opened as the new Ichinuno branch, and the older coastal stretch serving Higashisono via Nagayo became known as the Nagayo branch or old line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, and SUGOCA IC card service began on 1 December 2012.

The station sits inside a cutting on the Nagasaki Main Line's Nagayo branch, 3.5 km from the branch point at Kikitsu and served only by local trains.