History
Miemachi Station opened on 27 March 1921 as the new western terminus of the Japanese Government Railways Inukai Light Rail Line, which had been extending westwards from Ōita since 1914. It became a through-station on 23 November 1922 when the line reached Ogata, and on 2 December 1928 the consolidated route from Kumamoto to Ōita was redesignated the Hōhi Main Line. Control passed to JR Kyushu at the 1987 JNR privatisation. Station operations were outsourced for years to a JR Kyushu subsidiary, then returned to direct JR Kyushu management on 1 October 2023. The principal station of Bungo-Ōno, it has a side and an island platform serving three tracks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
In October 2023 the station was returned to direct JR Kyushu management after years of having operations outsourced to a JR Kyushu subsidiary.