Station

Meotoishi

夫婦石

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Meotoishi
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 44/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 44/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:24 / 22:26

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (4)


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

Meotoishi Station opened on 7 August 1898 as a station on the privately-owned Imari Railway, and on 28 December that same year passed to the Kyushu Railway through merger. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalised in 1907 the station became part of Imperial Railway Agency's Imari Line. The line was absorbed into the Matsuura Line in 1945, and ownership transitioned to the new Japanese National Railways on 1 June 1949. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1966 and parcel handling on 1 October 1970, when the station became unstaffed. With the JNR privatisation of 1 April 1987 the station was briefly part of JR Kyushu's Matsuura Line, and on 1 April 1988 it transferred to the third-sector Matsuura Railway. The wooden waiting room was lost to a small fire in June 2002 and demolished; a barrier-free connecting passage opened on 27 February 2012.

Notes

The station is named after the Meotoishi (literally "husband-and-wife stones"), a paired large and small rock in the Arita River near the station.

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