Nagasaki Station
railway station in Nagasaki, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan
Nagasaki Station (Japanese: 長崎駅, Hepburn: Nagasaki-eki) is a railway station in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). It is the terminus of the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen and the Nagasaki Main Line, as well as the westernmost high-speed Shinkansen railway station in Japan.
The station is connected by the Kamome Shinkansen service and the Relay Kamome limited express to Hakata, and by the Seaside Liner rapid service to Sasebo. Nagasaki Electric Tramway services call at a stop in front of the station.
Lines
Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen
Nagasaki Main Line
Station layout
The conventional line station has two elevated island platforms serving five tracks. The Shinkansen station has two island platforms serving four tracks.
Platforms
History
The station was opened on 5 April 1905 when the railway was extended from the former Nagasaki Station to the present station. The former station, opened in 1897, was renamed Urakami Station.
5 April 1905 - Opened by Kyushu Railway.
1 July 1907 - The railways are nationalized and the station becomes part of Japanese Government Railways.
“Nagasaki Station” enters the record as railway station in Nagasaki, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nagasaki, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Nagasaki Station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nagasaki, Station and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1076315. Authority coordinates are 32.753, 129.869. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1905, 1897 and 1907.
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This entry incorporates text from “Nagasaki Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.