History
Era Station opened on 15 December 1929 as an intermediate stop on the Daito Line on the same day that the line was extended west from Bungo-Nakamura to a new terminus at Bungo-Mori. On 27 June 1937 the Miyanoharu Line began branching from Era, making it a junction station, though that branch was suspended in 1943, restored in 1948, and finally abolished on 1 December 1984. The Daito Line was folded into the Kyudai Main Line on 15 November 1934, and Era passed to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The original 1929 station building and an adjoining residence burned down on 18 January 2014; Kokonoe Town built and opened a replacement in dozo-style white-plaster walls on 31 March 2015, with an attached museum on the local sake brewery.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The 2015 replacement station building was deliberately designed to resemble the nearby Yatsushika sake brewery, complete with a ball of cedar needles hung outside indicating a fresh batch of sake has been brewed.