History
Aoshima Station opened on 8 May 1963 as a Japanese National Railways station on the Nichinan Line. On 12 May 1973 Emperor Shōwa visited the prefecture for the 24th National Tree-Planting Festival, and an imperial train ran from Aoshima Station to Nobeoka. The station passed to JR Kyushu at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 and was destaffed on 1 December 1992. Concierge Aoshima moved into the station building on 10 October 2009. The station's exterior was renovated to a "foreign beachhouse" style on 6 April 2020. On 1 April 2022 it was transferred from JR Kyushu's Kagoshima Branch to the Miyazaki Branch. On 17 January 2026 SUGOCA IC-card service began in the Miyazaki direction.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Aoshima is the southern boundary of JR Kyushu's SUGOCA Miyazaki-area coverage — SUGOCA is not usable south of Aoshima towards Aburatsu and Shibushi. The station also has a long tradition of vendors selling Aoshima's signature "uirō" (steamed rice cakes) by boarding trains directly here.