History
Furugō Station, in Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture, sits on the JR Kyushu Kyūdai Main Line 138.9 km from Kurume. The original station opened on 30 October 1915 when the private Daito Railway began running between Ōita and Onoya. When the Daito Railway was nationalised on 1 December 1922, Japanese Government Railways closed the station. It was eventually reopened on 13 March 1988 by JR Kyushu, which had inherited the line at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. SUGOCA IC card service began on 1 December 2012, and the station was reverted to fully unstaffed operation on 1 July 2014. It is an unstaffed side-platform station with a single track; the small timber shelter on the platform contains a now-unstaffed ticket window, a vending machine, and a SUGOCA card reader.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Furugō is one of the rare stations to have been closed by its operator only to reopen 66 years later — its original 1915 incarnation under the private Daito Railway was shuttered on nationalisation in 1922, and JR Kyushu rebuilt the stop in March 1988.