History
Kami-Mio Station opened on 15 June 1902 in Iizuka, Fukuoka, as a freight station on the privately run Kyushu Railway. Following the railway's nationalisation in 1907 the track became the Chikuho Main Line freight branch in 1909. Passenger service began on 10 May 1920 and the branch was simultaneously redesignated the Urushi Line. The line was renamed the Gotōji Line on 1 July 1943 after the wartime nationalisation of the Industrial Cement Railway. Freight handling was withdrawn in November 1982, the station became unstaffed in February 1984, and JR Kyushu inherited it at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. Today the platform is served by a single bi-directional track with a simple caboose-style shelter and no permanent staff.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the platform now serves a single bi-directional track, traces of the old freight interchange remain in the yard: when the line was the main outlet for Aso family-owned coal mines, a branch towards Chikuzen-Yamano diverged here, and 1970s residential development was built over the old Asō Kami-Mio coal-mine "Ganjaku" pit nearby.