History
Sugao Station opened on 27 March 1921 when Japanese Government Railways extended the Inukai Light Rail Line (later the Inukai Line) westwards from Inukai to its new terminus at Miemachi. By 1928 the line had been linked to the Miyaji Line reaching east from Kumamoto, and on 2 December 1928 the through route was redesignated the Hōhi Main Line. Freight handling ended in 1962, the station became unstaffed in 1983, and control passed to JR Kyushu at the 1987 JNR privatisation; the present building dates from a 2005 rebuilding. The station has two side platforms linked by a footbridge in the city of Bungo-Ōno, Ōita Prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The current modern wooden station building was put up in 2005, replacing an older structure that had served the station for decades.