Nabeshima

Weekday departures: 94/day · Sat & holiday departures: 103/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:27 / 24:06 (00:06 next day)

Busiest hour: 17:00–18:00 (7)

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: Saga ⇄ Kubota (Saga)

Nabeshima Station was opened by Japanese Government Railways on 1 October 1926 as Nabeshima signal box on the existing Nagasaki Main Line, and was upgraded to a full station handling passenger traffic on 7 July 1930. Freight handling ended on 15 February 1962 and parcel handling on 1 November 1986. Control passed to JR Kyushu and JR Freight at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station building was rebuilt in 2002. The ticket window closed on 11 March 2022 and the passenger station became unstaffed the following day; SUGOCA service began on 3 October 2024. The adjacent JR Freight yard remains a major Saga-area container terminal with onward truck links to Arita and Nagasaki.

Although the passenger station is now unstaffed, Nabeshima doubles as a JR Freight container terminal and an operating base for the JR Freight Saga office, with daily truck shuttles relaying containers to and from Arita and Nagasaki off-rail stations.