History
Suzumeda Station opened as a temporary stop on 16 May 1929 with the inauguration of the Ube Electric Railway between Okinoyama-Kyūkō and Shin-Okiyama. A branch to what is now Nagato-Motoyama opened on 21 January 1937, and the stop was upgraded to a full station the same day. Through company mergers Suzumeda passed to Ube Railway in 1941 and was nationalised in 1943. Following extensions and re-routing, the route was renamed the Onoda Line in 1948. JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation transferred the station to JR West, and in 2018 a community refurbishment by the Sanyo-Onoda Junior Chamber and local university students repainted the wooden building in orange, the school's colour.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Suzumeda is the junction where the Onoda Line forks; the two single-track platforms diverge in a Y-shape with a small station building wedged between them, and the platform numbers are announced only over the automated passenger broadcast.