The station is served by the Ōmura Line and is located 34.8 km from the starting point of the line at Haiki.[3] Only local services on the line stop at the station.[4] As of March 2019, a total of 37 trains per day make scheduled stops at Suwa Station: 19 in the direction of Nagasaki; and 18 in the direction of Sasebo.[5]
Station layout
The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. The station building is a modern timber structure which formerly housed a ticket window but which has become unstaffed. With the station building closed, there is a direct entrance to the platform via a flight of steps. A shelter and automatic ticket vending machine and SUGOCA card reader have been installed on the platform.[3][2][6]
History
JR Kyushu opened the station on 11 March 1989 as an additional station on the existing track of the Ōmura Line.[7]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, there were a total of 95,775 boarding passengers, giving a daily average of 262 passengers.[8]
^ ab"諏訪" [Suwa]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
^ abKawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第5巻 長崎 佐賀 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 5 Nagasaki Saga area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 36, 73. ISBN9784062951647.
^"諏訪" [Suwa]. JR Kyushu official station website. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
^"諏訪駅時刻表"(PDF). JR Kyushu. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
^"大村線・諏訪駅に行ってきました" [I went to Suwa Station Ōmura Line]. Ameblo.jp. 25 July 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2018. Blog entry with good photographic coverage of station facilities.
^Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 738. ISBN4-533-02980-9.
^"第63版（平成28年）長崎県統計年鑑" [Nagasaki Prefecture Statistics Yearbook 63rd Edition 2016]. Nagasaki Prefectural Government website. Retrieved 16 March 2018. See table at section under Transportation and Communications.
External links
Media related to Suwa Station at Wikimedia Commons
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