Hataura

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

First / last train (weekday): 5:55 / 23:45

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.

• JR Amakusa Misumi Line: Ishiuchi Dam ⇄ Misumi

Hataura Station opened on 25 December 1959 as a petitioned station built with 1.9 million yen of locally raised funds, serving the Misumi Line from the outset as an unstaffed stop handling only diesel-car passengers. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station was transferred to JR Kyushu, which still operates it on the renamed Amakusa-Misumi Line. The layout — a single side platform serving one ground-level track, two simple platform waiting rooms and no station building — has not materially changed since opening, although a small ticket vending machine for short-distance tickets has been added.

Hataura is a designated "honorary stationmaster" station, and although unstaffed it is kept conspicuously well-maintained — the kind of detail unstaffed stops rarely show.