is the

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Nagayo is a List of towns in Japan, town located in Nishisonogi District, Nagasaki, Nishisonogi District, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Geography Nagayo is located within the southern part of Nagasaki prefecture and resides at the south of Ōmura Bay. ...

Nagasaki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 Square kilometre, km2 (1,594 sq mi). Nagasaki Prefecture borders ...

, Japan. It is operated by

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and is on the

Nagasaki Main Line The , or simply Nagasaki Line, is a railway line owned by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) connecting Tosu Station in Saga Prefecture to Nagasaki Station in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. There is a separate branch of this line from Kikitsu S ...

Lines

The station is served by the old line or the branch of the

and is located 16.4 km from the branch point at . Only local trains run on this branch.

Station layout

The station consists of a side platform serving a single track on an embankment. A small station building houses a staffed ticket window and waiting area at the base of the embankment from which a covered flight of steps leads to the platform where a shelter is provided for waiting passengers. The station is equipped with a

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card reader. Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a ''Midori no Madoguchi'' facility.

Adjacent stations

History

opened the station on 1 March 1994 as an additional station on the existing track of the old or Nagayo branch of the Nagasaki Main Line.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 462 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 252nd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

Environs

*Nagayo Town Nagayo Minami Elementary School *Nagasaki Prefectural Hokuyōdai High School - 5 Minutes on foot *Nagasaki Prefectural Road Route 33

References

External links

Kōda Station (JR Kyushu)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Koda Station (Nagayo, Nagasaki) Railway stations in Nagasaki Prefecture Nagasaki Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1994