Hyuga-Otsuka

Weekday departures: 12/day · Sat & holiday departures: 12/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:30 / 21:20

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Nichinan Line: Yowara ⇄ Hyuga-Kitakata

Hyūga-Ōtsuka Station opened on 15 April 1935 as an intermediate stop on the then Shibushi Line, on the same day the line was extended north to its new terminus at Yowara, completing a 28.5 km push from Shibushi. Located in present-day Kushima in Miyazaki Prefecture, the station sits 68.6 km from the line origin at Minami-Miyazaki. Freight handling ended in 1961 and baggage handling in 1985. The route was redesignated the Nichinan Line on 8 May 1963, and the station passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. The station has two side platforms linked by a level crossing and a small Japanese-style wooden waiting-room building.

Because of a long grade of up to 25‰ between Hyūga-Ōtsuka and the adjacent station of Yowara, which are also widely spaced, trains at this station once had to pause for as long as 17 minutes waiting to cross.