History
Miyazaki Airport Station opened on 18 July 1996 as the terminus of JR Kyushu's new 1.4 km Miyazaki Kūkō Line branching from Tayoshi. Until the Naha Airport monorail station opened on 10 August 2003, it was Japan's southernmost airport rail station. The station has an elevated, slightly curved island platform serving two tracks; the exit leads directly to the Miyazaki Airport passenger terminal and the bus terminal beyond. From its opening it was managed as a subsidiary-operated staffed station with a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office; on 1 October 2023 it was converted to a directly operated station under JR Kyushu itself. Since 6 August 2015 the platform has used a station melody, 'Bougainvillean', composed on-site by Minoru Mukaiya at the request of Miyazaki Prefecture's governor.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until Naha Airport's monorail station opened on 10 August 2003, Miyazaki Airport was Japan's southernmost airport rail station.