History
Daigaku Station opened on 16 March 1991 as Daigaku-mae Station ("University-mae") on the new section of Matsuura Railway's Nishi-Kyūshū Line between Ainoura and Kami-Ainoura. It was renamed to its present name Daigaku Station on 3 October 1994. The station has the distinction of being the only railway station in Japan whose formal name is simply "University."
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Daigaku, along with Imafuku on the same line, has been promoted as a "good-omen" station (縁起駅). A station-name signboard reading "Pray for Pass — Daigaku Station" (祈合格 大学駅) is displayed at the platform together with a shrine altar enshrining a spirit divided from Iimori Shrine, and visitors come from inside and outside the prefecture to buy entrance tickets associating themselves with university admission; because the station itself is unstaffed, the tickets are sold at Matsuura Railway's staffed stations and by mail order, including special "Imafuku to Daigaku" travel tickets and 5-ticket entrance-ticket sets.