Kamegawa

Weekday departures: 89/day · Sat & holiday departures: 89/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:46 / 23:49

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (8)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Nippō Line: Bungo-Toyooka ⇄ Beppu Daigaku

Kamegawa Station opened on 16 July 1911 as an intermediate stop when Japanese Government Railways extended the Hōshū Main Line (now the Nippō Main Line) south to a new terminus at Beppu. From 1942 the short Beppu-Ōita Electric Railway briefly linked the station to Kamegawa-Ekimae before its abolition in 1972. Double-tracking of the next section south was completed in 1966. Freight handling ended in 1984 and parcel handling in 1985. Control passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987; a Midori no Madoguchi opened in 1989. A new bridge station building entered service on 10 July 2010, and from 1 October 2023 direct JR Kyushu staff replaced the previous outsourced arrangement. Three tracks serve one side and one island platform.

Drawing on the station name's literal meaning of "turtle river," the station forecourt features parent-and-child turtle benches and a planting of kikkō-chiku ("tortoise-shell bamboo").