Station

Kouda (Matsuura Railway)

神田

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Kouda (Matsuura Railway)
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 40/day · Sat & holiday departures: 40/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:11 / 22:16

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)


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

Timetable data as of 13 May 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Kōda Station serves Saza in Nagasaki Prefecture, about 70.3 km from Arita on the Matsuura Railway's Nishi-Kyūshū Line. It opened on 11 February 1934 as a stop called Kōda on the Sasebo Railway. Nationalization in 1936 moved it to the Railway Ministry and renamed it Hizen-Kōda. Freight handling ended in 1966, and baggage handling ended in 1970, when the station became unstaffed. Japan National Railways' 1987 breakup made it a JR Kyushu Matsuura Line stop; in 1988 the line passed to the third-sector Matsuura Railway as the Nishi-Kyūshū Line, restoring the name Kōda. A 1981 fire destroyed the original building, later replaced by a simple prefabricated shelter. The station now has one ground-level side platform on a single bidirectional track.

Notes

Despite sharing the same pronunciation, "Kōda" is written with three different kanji at three different Japanese stations: this one (神田), one on JR Tokai's Tōkaidō Main Line (幸田), and one on JR Kyushu's Nagasaki Main Line (高田).

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