is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

Bungo-Ōno is a city located in Ōita Prefecture, Japan. The modern city of Bungo-Ōno was established on March 31, 2005, from the merger between the towns of Asaji, Inukai, Mie, Ogata and Ōno, and the villages of Chitose and Kiyokawa (all from Ōn ...

Ōita Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Ōita Prefecture has a population of 1,136,245 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,340 km2 (2,448 sq mi). Ōita Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northwest, Kumam ...

, Japan. It is operated by

JR Kyushu The , also referred to as , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates intercity rail services within Kyushu, Japan and the JR Kyushu Jet Ferry Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Strait ...

and is on the

Hōhi Main Line The is a railway line in Kyushu, southern Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). It connects the west and east coasts of the island. The line originates at Kumamoto Station in Kumamoto and ends at terminal of Ōita Station ...

Lines

The station is served by the

and is located 111.9 km from the starting point of the line at .

Layout

The station consists of a side and an island platform serving three tracks with a siding branching off track 3. The station building is a wooden structure in western style and houses a waiting area, an automatic ticket vending machine and a staffed ticket window. Access to the island platform is by means of a covered footbridge. Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket booth which is equipped with a ''Midori no Madoguchi'' facility.

Adjacent stations

Due to earthquake damage on the Hōhi Main Line, the ''Aso Boy!'' Limited Express from to was suspended. From April 2017, the ''Aso Boy!'' began operating on an alternative route from through Ōita to Aso.

History

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR) had opened the (later Inukai Line) from to on 1 April 1914. The track was extended westwards in phases, with opening as the new western terminus on 27 March 1921. Miemachi became a through-station on 23 November 1922 when the track was extended to . By 1928, the track been extended further west and had linked up with the reaching eastwards from . On 2 December 1928, the entire track from Kumamoto through Miemachi to Ōita was designated as the

. With the privatization of

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu. On 17 September 2017, Typhoon Talim (Typhoon 18) damaged the Hōhi Main Line at several locations. Services between Aso and Nakahanda, including Miemachi, were suspended and replaced by bus services. Rail service from Aso to Miemachi was restored by 22 September 2017 Normal rail services between Aso and Ōita were restored by 2 October 2017.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 844 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 185th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

References

External links

Miemachi (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Ōita Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1921 Bungo-ōno, Ōita {{oita-rail-station-stub