Amatsu

Weekday departures: 44/day · Sat & holiday departures: 44/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:56 / 24:40 (00:40 next day)

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (6)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Nippo Line: Imazu (Oita) ⇄ Buzen-Zenkoji

Japanese National Railways opened Amatsu Station on 1 October 1956 as an added stop on the existing Nippō Main Line, in present-day Usa City, Ōita Prefecture. Twin-tracking of the line through Amatsu was completed in September and October 1982. Parcels handling ended on 1 February 1984 and the station was unstaffed on 1 November 1984. JR Kyushu took over with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, and SUGOCA IC cards became usable on 1 December 2012, although recharge and card purchase are not possible at the station. The single-storey wooden station building from the 1956 opening is still in use as the waiting room.

The station serves the area where the 35th yokozuna Futabayama was born: the shrine, the site of his birthplace and the Futaba no Sato museum devoted to him all lie north of the station, though the birthplace site and the museum are some way from it. A memorial stone stands at his birthplace, and each year a sumo competition is held on a dohyō set up beside it.