Naka-Sasebo

Weekday departures: 43/day · Sat & holiday departures: 43/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:37 / 22:17

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 13 May 2026.

• Nishi-Kyushu Line: Sasebo-Chuou

Naka-Sasebo Station opened on 15 July 1961 as a station of the Japanese National Railways Matsuura Line, serving central Sasebo, Nagasaki. It was destaffed on 1 October 1970. With the 1987 privatisation of JNR, control passed briefly to JR Kyushu, before transferring to the third-sector Matsuura Railway on 1 April 1988 when the line was reorganised as the Nishi-Kyūshū Line. The station occupies an elevated single side platform with no permanent building, and is now part of one of Japan's shortest inter-station segments — Naka-Sasebo and the next stop, Sasebo-Chūō, are only 200 metres apart.

The 200-metre gap to Sasebo-Chūō is tied with one Chikuhō Electric Railway segment as Japan's shortest interval between two railway stations.