History
Hiji Station opened on 22 March 1911 as the new southern terminus of the Hōshū Main Line, which Japanese Government Railways had been extending in stages from Kokura after the 1907 nationalisation of the private Kyushu Railway. It became a through-station less than four months later when the line was pushed on to Beppu on 16 July 1911, and the route was renamed the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923. Sitting on an embankment in Hiji, Ōita Prefecture, the station passed to JR Kyushu at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. JR Kyushu withdrew its staff on 1 April 2016, after which the Hiji town authorities took over the ticket window as a kan'i itaku commission agent.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
JR Kyushu transferred the staffed ticket window to the Hiji town authorities under a kan'i itaku commission arrangement in 2016, keeping a counter open only on weekday mornings until the window finally closed in 2024.