History
Minami-Ōita Station, in Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture, lies on JR Kyushu's Kyūdai Main Line 136.6 km from Kurume. It opened on 30 October 1915 as Ryōgo Station, an intermediate stop on the new Daito Railway between Ōita and Onoya. Following the nationalisation of Daito Railway on 1 December 1922 it became a Daito Line station, and was renamed Minami-Ōita on 1 December 1925. With the linking of the Daito Line to the Kyūdai Main Line further west, the entire route was redesignated as part of the Kyūdai Main Line on 15 November 1934. JR Kyushu took control at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The station building was rebuilt as a convenience-store-integrated facility in March 1993, and SUGOCA IC service began on 1 December 2012. The Midori no Madoguchi reservation counter closed on 11 March 2022, and on 1 October 2023 the outsourcing contract for ticketing was ended, making the station fully unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When rebuilt in March 1993, Minami-Ōita's station building was integrated with a Daiichi-style convenience store named "Seikatsu Ressha" ("Life Train"), where the ticket gate and waiting area were inside the shop — the first such arrangement in Japan.