Tsukinokawa

Weekday departures: 32/day · Sat & holiday departures: 32/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:34 / 22:17

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

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: Maehama ⇄ Matsuura

Tsukinokawa Station is on the Matsuura Railway Nishi-Kyūshū Line in Tsukinokawa-machi, Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture. The station opened on 25 June 1933 on the Ministry of Railways Imari Line (later the Matsuura Line); freight and parcel handling ended and the station was unstaffed on 1 October 1970, the station passed to JR Kyushu's Matsuura Line on 1 April 1987 with JNR privatisation, then to the third-sector Matsuura Railway Nishi-Kyūshū Line on 1 April 1988, and on 11 May 2015 was given the nickname "Japan's number-one horse-mackerel and chub-mackerel landing base." The nickname reflects the Matsuura Local Wholesale Market (Matsuura Fish Market) immediately north of the station. The city is on the northern Kita-Matsuura Peninsula facing the Genkai Sea and Imari Bay, is the birthplace of the mediaeval Matsuura Party of warriors, and lands more horse mackerel (aji) than any other city in Japan — formally proclaiming itself the "Holy Land of Aji Fry" on 27 April 2019.

On the evening of 5 April 1943 a freight train derailed at this station, and station-master Maruyama Shichirō, unable to make progress in the darkness under an air-raid alert and blackout, lit lamps in breach of the blackout to complete the recovery work; the act was spotted by an army observation post on a nearby hilltop, and he later took responsibility for the accident and for the breach of military orders by throwing himself in front of a locomotive he had himself signalled to depart. A subscription got up by railway colleagues and the village headman raised about 17,280 yen, which went to his bereaved family, part of it paying for a memorial stele erected on the station grounds in May 1945.