Station

Imabuku

今福

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Imabuku
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 32/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 32/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:44 / 22:07

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (3)


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

Timetable data as of 13 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Imabuku Station opened on 1 October 1930 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railways Imari Line, later folded into the Matsuura Line. Freight handling ceased in 1970, and with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu. On 1 April 1988 operation transferred to the third-sector Matsuura Railway, becoming part of its Nishi-Kyūshū Line, at which point the station was made unstaffed. In 2015 the operator gave it the local nickname "Imayori Fuku no Shōzuru Tokoro," tying the station name to a play on the word fuku (fortune). The station sits in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture, with one island and one side platform serving three tracks (one unused, so effectively operated as 2 platforms / 2 tracks), connected by a level crossing.

Notes

Matsuura Railway gave the station the local nickname "Imayori Fuku no Shōzuru Tokoro" in 2015 — a wordplay on the station name that means "a place where fortune now arises."

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