Kami-Arita

Weekday departures: 60/day · Sat & holiday departures: 60/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:30 / 23:23

Busiest hour: 12:00–13:00 (6)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Sasebo Line: Mimasaka ⇄ Arita

Kami-Arita Station opened on 1 October 1898 as Nakataru (中樽), a freight-only station of the private Kyushu Railway. After the Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907, passenger services began on 1 May 1909 and the station was renamed Kami-Arita. Cargo handling was abolished on 1 June 1972, when the station was also made unstaffed. With the breakup and privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, control passed to JR Kyushu. The SUGOCA IC card became usable here on 3 October 2024.

Kami-Arita is a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge and retains a wooden station building. It serves local trains only, except during the Arita Ceramics Fair held over Golden Week, when daytime limited-express "Midori" and "Huis Ten Bosch" services also stop. One-man local trains normally open only the front car's doors, but during the fair the JR Kyushu Nagasaki branch dispatches staff to operate every door because of the crowd.