History
Ōyabu Station opened on 1 October 1990 on the Itoda Line of the third-sector Heisei Chikuhō Railway, carrying the station number HC54. A freight-only station of the same name had previously operated at the same site under the Kyushu Railway from 20 October 1897, was nationalised in 1907, and was abolished on 1 April 1954. On 1 April 2009 the discount-chain operator MrMax acquired naming rights, so the station is officially also styled "MrMax Ōyabu Station"; of the four MrMax-sponsored stations it is the nearest to one of the chain's stores (the Tagawa Bypass branch). The station consists of a single curved side platform on a single track, has no station building, and is unattended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because the platform sits on a curve, trains stop noticeably tilted relative to passengers boarding.