History
Minami-Yufu Station opened on 29 July 1925 as an intermediate stop on the Daito Line, on the same day Yufuin (then Kita-Yufuin) became the line's new western terminus. The Daito Line had been built on the nationalised tracks of the private Daito Railway, taken over by Japanese Government Railways on 1 December 1922. On 15 November 1934 the Daito Line was folded into the Kyudai Main Line after linking up with the existing line further west. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962 and parcel handling on 10 February 1971, when the station was unstaffed. Control passed to JR Kyushu at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A passing loop was installed on 15 July 1992, and the current single-storey Japanese-style wooden station building was rebuilt on 22 March 1993.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Daily boarding traffic at Minami-Yufu has fallen from 270 per day in fiscal 1965 to 51 in fiscal 2015 — a roughly five-fold decline that tracks the broader contraction of Yufu City's commuter rail use.