Timetable information
Known weekday departures: 34/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 34/day
First / last known departure (weekday): 5:35 / 23:45
Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (3)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).
Adjacent stations
- Hohi Line: Miemachi ⇄ Ogata (Oita)
Location
History
Bungo-Kiyokawa Station opened on 23 November 1922 as Makiguchi Station, named after the village it stood in, when Japanese Government Railways extended the Inukai Line to Ogata. On 2 December 1928 the line became part of the consolidated Hōhi Main Line linking Kumamoto and Ōita. The station became unstaffed under a simplified-agency arrangement on 30 November 1983. Control passed to JR Kyushu at the 1987 JNR privatisation. A new station building shared with a local produce hall was completed on 3 June 1990, and the station was renamed Bungo-Kiyokawa on 1 November 1990 after the surrounding village had merged into Kiyokawa.
Notes
The station was originally Makiguchi, after its old village, but was renamed Bungo-Kiyokawa in 1990 once enough confused visitors had asked which stop served Kiyokawa village.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: user:masamic · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-08-18