Nobeoka

Known weekday departures: 45/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:17 / 22:25

Busiest hour (known departures): 5:00–6:00 (5)

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).

• JR Nippo Line: Kita-Nobeoka ⇄ Minami-Nobeoka

Nobeoka Station opened on 1 May 1922 as the terminus of the then-Miyazaki Main Line, extended from Minami-Nobeoka by the Railway Ministry. The route was renamed the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923, and the original station building burned down in the Nobeoka air raid of 29 June 1945. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station passed to JR Kyushu and JR Freight. From 1989 the connecting Takachiho Line was operated by Takachiho Railway, but typhoon damage on 6 September 2005 suspended that line and the section to Makimine was formally abolished on 6 September 2007. A new station building opened on 5 August 2017, and the through east–west passage opened on 1 April 2018.

A poem by Wakayama Bokusui — who attended the local junior high school — is inscribed on a large pillar at the entrance to the station building.