Imabuku

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

First / last train (weekday): 5:44 / 22:07

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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• Nishi-Kyushu Line: Takashimaguchi ⇄ Fukushimaguchi

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.

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."