History
Ōita-Daigaku-mae Station opened on 23 March 2002 as an in-fill stop on JR Kyushu's Hōhi Main Line, serving Oita University's nearby Dannohara campus. Local advocacy through the "JR Hōhi Line Ōita-Daigaku-mae Station Establishment Association" began campaigning for the new station from autumn 2000. The station was equipped with a glass-fronted barrier-free building, multipurpose toilet, and a long ramp linking the gate level to the single side platform. SUGOCA IC card readers were introduced on 1 December 2012. Initially run by JR Kyushu Tetsudo Eigyo as an outsourced staffed stop, the station was unstaffed from 1 December 2018 when the "ANSWER" remote-assistance system was deployed, having been deferred from an earlier March 2018 rollout date.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The long sloped ramp linking the gate to the lower platform doubles as an informal gallery, periodically hosting photo and art exhibitions.