History
Onoya Station opened on 30 October 1915 as the western terminus of the private Daito Railway's track from Ōita. After nationalisation on 1 December 1922 it became a Japanese Government Railways station, and on 29 September 1923 it lost terminus status when the line was extended west to Yunohira. On 15 November 1934 the route was redesignated part of the Kyūdai Main Line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, and the present steel single-storey building (62.5 m²) dates from 18 March 2007. It was destaffed by JR Kyushu in April 2016, although Yufu City employs a part-time clerk for season-ticket sales on weekday mornings.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station was named not after the surrounding district but after the "Onoya Sake Shop" near the station — a private business name dating from the line's planning era, and a rare case of a national railway station taking its title from an individual shop.