Arita

Known weekday departures: 99/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 99/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:00 / 23:27

Busiest hour (known departures): 16:00–17:00 (9)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 13 May 2026 (latest retrieval in spring/summer 2026): the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• Sasebo Line: Kami-Arita ⇄ Mikawachi
• Nishi-Kyushu Line: Midaibashi

Arita Station opened on 10 July 1897 as an intermediate station on the private Kyushu Railway. On 7 August 1898 the Imari Railway opened a branch from Imari ending at Arita; it merged into Kyushu Railway later that year. The Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907, and on 1 December 1934 the route through Arita was redesignated the Sasebo Line, with the Imari branch becoming the Matsuura Line on 1 March 1945. After JNR's 1987 privatisation, the Matsuura Line was transferred on 1 April 1988 to the third-sector Matsuura Railway, making Arita a junction between the two operators. A new station building opened in June 1996, and the JR side was destaffed on 31 March 2026.

The station building is a modern structure with a distinctive circular skylight, and the ekiben "Aritayaki Curry" is sold by a shop in the station forecourt; it was voted the top station bento in a nationwide ranking on a 2008 television broadcast and went on to win the Kyushu ekiben ranking in 2010.