Station

Nishi-Ouchi

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Nishi-Ouchi
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 18/day · Sat & holiday departures: 18/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:49 / 21:05

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)


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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Nishi-Ōchi Station opened on 1 March 1935 as an intermediate stop on the private Kitakyushu Railway's western extension from Yamamoto to Imari. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1937, becoming part of the Chikuhi Line under Japanese Government Railways. Passenger duties were outsourced in 1970, and the station was made unstaffed on 22 March 1983. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR Kyushu. Once an island-platform station with two tracks, one track has since been removed, leaving a single side platform with a short shelter. The wooden station building was demolished. The station stands in Ōchi-chō Sari, Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, in an area that was one of the centres of the Karatsu coalfield.

Notes

The enka singer Murata Hideo grew up in the shopping street that once stood in front of this station, when the area was a bustling hub of the Karatsu coalfield.

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