History
Hyūga-Kutsukake Station began life as the Hyūga-Kutsukake signal box, which Japanese National Railways opened on 15 September 1965 on the Nippō Main Line in what is now Kiyotake, Miyazaki. Just two weeks later, on 1 October 1965, the facility was upgraded to a full passenger station. CTC was extended through the Minami-Miyazaki–Kagoshima section on 1 October 1979 and the station became unstaffed at the same time. It passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. ICカード SUGOCA service was introduced on 14 November 2015, and the station moved from the Kagoshima Branch to the new Miyazaki Branch on 1 April 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.