Konagai Station


Konagai Station is a railway station in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nagasaki Main Line.

Lines

The station is served by the Nagasaki Main Line and is located 82.3 km from the starting point of the line at.

Station layout

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The station building is a stonework structure built to resemble a European church complete with sloping roofs and tower with stained glass. It is, however, unstaffed, and houses only a waiting room and automatic ticket vending machine. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge. A siding branches off track 1 and includes some vehicle sheds.

Adjacent stations

History

built the station in the 1930s during the development of an alternative route for the Nagasaki Main Line along the coast of the Ariake Sea. By 1934, a track extended south from had reached and another track extended north from had reached. In the final phase of construction, a track was laid to link up between Tara and Yue. Through-traffic was achieved on 1 December 1934. On the same day, Konagai was opened as an intermediate station on this new stretch of track. At the same time, the route from Hizen-Yamaguchi through the station to Nagasaki was designated as part of the Nagasaki Main Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the daily average number of passengers using the station was above 100 and below 323. The station did not rank among the top 300 busiest stations of JR Kyushu.