Nagato Futami

Weekday departures: 22/day · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:43 / 22:06

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• San'in Main Line: Takibe ⇄ Ukahongō

Nagato-Futami Station entered service on 16 August 1925 when the Japanese National Rail Kogushi Line was extended from Kogushi Station to Takibe Station; the new stop handled both passengers and freight from the start. On 24 February 1933 the Kogushi Line was absorbed into the San'in Main Line, and freight service was discontinued on 1 August 1961. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station came under JR West. Located in the Hōhoku area of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the unstaffed stop sits halfway up a mountainside, with its island platform reached by a stairway through a tunnel from the station building.

Because residents asked for the new line to keep two earlier inland stops, the tracks approaching Nagato-Futami had to swing through curves of nearly 90 degrees rather than follow the Sea of Japan coast as originally planned.