History
Kita-Yamada Station opened on 16 September 1932 as a Ministry of Railways station, in Tobata, Kusu-machi, Kusu District, Ōita Prefecture, on what is today JR Kyushu's Kyūdai Main Line. Freight handling ended on 20 February 1971 and the station became a contracted station. Parcel handling ended on 20 January 1984, when the station became unstaffed and the station building was sold to Kusu-machi. JNR's breakup on 1 April 1987 transferred operation to JR Kyushu. On 14 April 1992 Kusu-machi rebuilt the station building (total cost 25 million yen). At the end of March 2014 the shop and bussan-kan (local products hall) closed; in July 2014 the town entrusted station-building management to the local Kita-Yamada District Community Management Council, which renovated the interior by June 2015 — the ground floor became a gallery of local scenery, railway photographs and works by Kita-Yamada Junior High School students, and the upper floor became a community space.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kita-Yamada has a log-cabin-style two-storey timber station building (floor area 142 m²) and a single side platform — it was once a two-track crossing station. The upper floor of the renovated building overlooks the Mikazuki Falls, a 'Mini Niagara' on the Kusu River about ten minutes' walk south of the station. In FY1965 the station handled 232,865 boardings, 237,631 alightings, 387 dispatched and 297 received items of luggage, and 1,688 dispatched and 3,286 received small parcels.