History
Shikido opened on 22 February 1987 as a passenger-only unstaffed halt on Japanese National Railways' Hōhi Main Line, with a 50-metre platform sized for two-car trains. JR Kyushu inherited it with the privatisation of 1 April 1987. As ridership grew, the platform was lengthened to 91 metres, raised and widened on 25 December 1991 to take four-car trains. A footbridge to the Shikido housing estate on the south side opened in February 1995, and an automatic ticket machine for short-distance journeys followed on 1 December the same year. ICOCA-compatible SUGOCA cards became usable on 1 December 2012, and the remote-assistance ANSWER system replaced the on-site staff on 1 December 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until Ōita-Daigaku-mae opened in 2002, Shikido was the closest station to Ōita University; the 1.4 km between the two is the shortest inter-station gap anywhere within Ōita City.