History
Obi Station opened on 28 October 1941 as an intermediate stop when the Railway Ministry's Shibushi Line was extended north from Aburatsu to Kitagō. After the line was joined to Minami-Miyazaki on 8 May 1963 the whole route was renamed the Nichinan Line. Freight handling ended in November 1960 and baggage handling in March 1985. The site sits 39.8 kilometres south of Minami-Miyazaki in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, and its wooden station building is built to resemble nearby Obi Castle with white plaster namako walls. Operation was outsourced to JR Kyushu Service Support until April 2022, when management passed to Nichinan city as a simple-consignment site. JR Kyushu has run the station since the 1 April 1987 privatisation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station building is built to resemble the white-walled keep of the neighbouring Obi Castle, complete with namako plaster walls.