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Map of Japan with the Sasebo Line highlighted in red. The Sasebo Line (佐世保線, Sasebo-sen) is a railway line in Kyushu, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). It connects Kōhoku Station in Kōhoku, Saga Prefecture to Sasebo Station in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. It is part of the route connecting Sasebo with Saga and ...
Sasebo Station (佐世保駅, Sasebo-eki) is the major railway station in the city of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in Japan. The Sasebo Line of the Kyushu Railway Company and the Nishi-Kyūshū Line of the Matsuura Railway provide local and regional service and connections to the extensive JR network. Sasebo is the westernmost station in the JR ...
JR Tōzai Line (West Japan Railway Company) Trolleybus Line (Tateyama Kurobe Kanko) Trunk Line (Kumamoto City Transportation Bureau) Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line (Nickname. East Japan Railway Company, Hokkaido Railway Company) Tsugaru Line (East Japan Railway Company) Tsugaru Railway Line (Tsugaru Railway) Tsukuba Express Line (Metropolitan Intercity ...
The station is served by the Sasebo Line and is located 13.7 km from the starting point of the line at Hizen-Yamaguchi. [3] Besides the local services on the Sasebo Line, the JR Kyushu Limited Express services Midori (from Hakata to Sasebo) and Huis Ten Bosch (from Hakata to Huis Ten Bosch) also stop at this station.
When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, track from Tosu through Haiki to Nagasaki was designated the Nagasaki Main Line while the branch from to Sasebo was designated the Sasebo Line with Haiki as the official starting point.
List of railway lines in Japan lists existing railway lines in Japan alphabetically. The vast majority of Japanese railways are classified under two Japanese laws, one for railways (鉄道, tetsudō) and another for trams (軌道, kidō). The difference between the two is a legal, and not always substantial, one.
Besides the Sasebo Line local services, the JR Kyushu Rapid Seaside Liner also stops at the station. In addition, although Haiki is the official starting point of the Ōmura Line , most of its local services continue on to terminate at Sasebo using the Sasebo Line tracks and stop at this station on the way.
The logo common throughout the JR group JR Group service regions. The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as the JR Group (Jeiāru Gurūpu) or simply JR, is a group of railway companies in Japan that underwent division and privatization [1] of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.