History
Minami-Nobeoka opened on 11 February 1922 as the new northern terminus of the Miyazaki Main Line, after Japanese Government Railways extended the route nationalised from the Miyazaki Prefectural Railway. It became a through-station on 1 May 1922 when the line reached Nobeoka, and on 15 December 1923 the link-up with the Hoshū Line redesignated the whole route as the Nippō Main Line. The station building burned in the 10 August 1945 Nobeoka air raid, and the present third-generation building dates from 5 April 1978. The 1 April 1987 privatisation passed it jointly to JR Kyushu and JR Freight. Container freight handling ended in August 2023, the third platform track was removed on 16 March 2024, and overnight stabling ended on 14 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On 16 September 2006 a tornado spawned by Typhoon Shanshan derailed the limited express Nichirin No. 9 about 400 metres before the station, toppling the front two cars onto their sides.