更新日：2026年2月25日

Haenosaki Station

Haenosaki Station opened in 1898 as a station of the Kyushu Railway Company. Since it opened, it has been famous as a notoriously hard-to-read station name. It is even mentioned in the Railway Song (Tetsudō Shōka), which says, “The characters for south wind are read as ‘hae.’”

From October 1945, after the end of the Pacific War, Haenosaki Station began transporting repatriates who returned to Japan via Uragashira Port in Sasebo. As the station closest to the Sasebo Repatriation Relief Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (located on the site of today’s Huis Ten Bosch), a total of 1,147 specially organized repatriation trains were operated. At the peak of repatriation, thousands departed daily from this station for their hometowns. Haenosaki Station is therefore an essential place in the history of Japan’s postwar reconstruction.

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