History
Kaku Station opened on 30 October 1915 as a station of the private Daito Railway (大湯鉄道), the same day the operator's track from Ōita to Onoya entered service. The Daito Railway was nationalised on 1 December 1922 and the station passed to the Ministry of Railways. Cargo handling was abolished on 1 October 1962. The station was unstaffed from 10 February 1971, and parcel handling ended ten days later on 20 February 1971. With the breakup and privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station was inherited by JR Kyushu. The SUGOCA IC card became usable here on 1 December 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kaku is an unstaffed ground-level halt with a single side platform and one track, and has no station building — only an automatic ticket machine and a staff window. SUGOCA can be used to enter and exit at Kaku, but the station cannot top up or sell IC cards.