Kamegawa

History

Kamegawa Station opened on 16 July 1911 as an intermediate stop when Japanese Government Railways extended the Hōshū Main Line (now the Nippō Main Line) south to a new terminus at Beppu. From 1942 the short Beppu-Ōita Electric Railway briefly linked the station to Kamegawa-Ekimae before its abolition in 1972. Double-tracking of the next section south was completed in 1966. Freight handling ended in 1984 and parcel handling in 1985. Control passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987; a Midori no Madoguchi opened in 1989. A new bridge station building entered service on 10 July 2010, and from 1 October 2023 direct JR Kyushu staff replaced the previous outsourced arrangement. Three tracks serve one side and one island platform.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

Drawing on the station name's literal meaning of "turtle river," the station forecourt features parent-and-child turtle benches and a planting of kikkō-chiku ("tortoise-shell bamboo").