Imazu (Oita)

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

First / last departure (weekday): 4:59 / 24:37 (00:37 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: Higashi-Nakatsu ⇄ Amatsu

Imazu Station opened on 25 September 1897 as an intermediate stop on the Hōshū Railway between Yukuhashi and Yanagigaura, in what is today the city of Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture. The privately built line was bought out by the Kyushu Railway in September 1901 and then nationalised in July 1907. Japanese Government Railways designated the station as part of the Hōshū Main Line on 12 October 1909, and incorporated it into the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923. Freight handling ceased in 1961 and parcels handling in 1984. Control passed to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987. JR Kyushu removed station staff in March 2015, after which Nakatsu City took over ticket sales on a kan'i itaku basis.

The 1937-vintage wooden station building still stands and serves as the public waiting room and a Nakatsu-City-run ticket window, more than half a century after every other piece of the station's freight era was stripped out.