Beppu

Weekday departures: 165/day · Sat & holiday departures: 165/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:21 / 24:25 (00:25 next day)

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (12)

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: Beppu Daigaku ⇄ Higashi-Beppu

Beppu Station opened on 16 July 1911 as a Railway Board station in Eki-mae-machi, Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, on the Nippō Main Line. In June 1949 a postwar imperial tour saw Imperial trains running Kōzaki - Beppu (7 June) and Beppu - Nakatsu (9 June). Freight handling ended on 1 October 1961. A section of line around Beppu was elevated on 25 September 1965; the elevated works were completed on 9 August 1966 together with double-tracking from Kamegawa to Higashi-Beppu, and the present second-generation 'Beppu Minshū-eki' building opened on 15 September 1966, with the Beppu Station Centre (today's station commercial complex) following on 1 October. Parcel handling (excluding newspapers) ended on 1 November 1986, and JR Kyushu took over on 1 April 1987. The station was refurbished in spring 1995 and underwent a large-scale renovation completed on 25 February 2005. Three platform elevators were installed in March 2007, automatic ticket gates on 13 March 2010, and SUGOCA support from 1 December 2012. On 12 March 2022 the Midori-no-Madoguchi hours were shortened to 07:30 - 19:00.

Beppu is the representative station of Beppu, a city known throughout Japan for the Beppu Onsen. All limited expresses stop here, and the Yufu, Yufuin-no-mori, and Trans-Kyushu Limited Express originate or terminate here. From May 1929 the Ōita Kōtsū Betsudai Line tram ran from Kitahama to Beppu Eki-mae, until its tracks were removed from October 1956. A 1952 plan to relocate the station to Shinkō-chō was scrapped due to opposition from local residents, but the name 'Shin-Beppu' survives in the city road 'Shin-Beppu-eki Myōban-sen' (commonly called the 'Kankō-kō Ōdōri'). When the shopping arcade beneath the viaduct opened in 1967 it was billed as 'the longest under-viaduct shopping arcade in Japan'.