History
Usuki Station opened on 15 August 1915 as a station of the Railway Bureau. Cargo handling was abolished on 1 February 1984 and parcel handling on 1 November 1986. With the breakup and privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR Kyushu. After damage from Typhoon Talim (Typhoon 18) on 17 September 2017, the line between Usuki and Nobeoka was suspended; through-service to Saiki was restored on 18 December 2017. From 1 October 2023, station operations were transferred from a JR Kyushu Service Support entrustment to direct JR Kyushu management, with a station-master post re-established.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Usuki is the representative station of Usuki City. Every train stops here, and just under half of all local services turn back towards Ōita at the station; the last train from Ōita is also terminated at Usuki, with its arrival time after a March 2015 timetable revision pushed to 00:22 (crossing midnight). The 1981 reinforced-concrete station building has a skylight for daylighting and a front facade designed to evoke the stone walls of Usuki Castle.