Station

Bungo-Nakamura

豊後中村

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Bungo-Nakamura
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 21/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 21/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:25 / 21:59

Busiest hour (known departures): 9:00–10:00 (3)


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

Location

History

Bungo-Nakamura Station is in the town of Kokonoe, Ōita Prefecture, on the JR Kyushu Kyūdai Main Line at 83.1 km from Kurume. The station opened on 28 October 1928 as the new western terminus when Japanese Government Railways extended the former Daito Railway westwards. On 15 December 1929 it became a through-station with the further extension to Bungo-Mori, and on 15 November 1934 the line was redesignated as part of the Kyūdai Main Line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu. The original timber building was replaced in 2010 by Kokonoe Town with a thatched-roof, traditional-style structure, and the station was reclassified as a kan'i itaku (simplified-commission) outsourced station from April that year.

Notes

When the station was rebuilt in 2010, the new building was given a thatched roof — only the second example of a thatched-roofed railway station in Japan.

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