History
Bungo-Nakamura Station is in the town of Kokonoe, Ōita Prefecture, on the JR Kyushu Kyūdai Main Line at 83.1 km from Kurume. The station opened on 28 October 1928 as the new western terminus when Japanese Government Railways extended the former Daito Railway westwards. On 15 December 1929 it became a through-station with the further extension to Bungo-Mori, and on 15 November 1934 the line was redesignated as part of the Kyūdai Main Line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu. The original timber building was replaced in 2010 by Kokonoe Town with a thatched-roof, traditional-style structure, and the station was reclassified as a kan'i itaku (simplified-commission) outsourced station from April that year.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When the station was rebuilt in 2010, the new building was given a thatched roof — only the second example of a thatched-roofed railway station in Japan.