Kamegawa

Weekday departures: 89/day · Sat & holiday departures: 89/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:46 / 23:49

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (8)

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: Bungo-Toyooka ⇄ Beppu Daigaku

Kamegawa Station opened on 16 July 1911 as an intermediate stop when Japanese Government Railways extended the Hōshū Main Line (now the Nippō Main Line) south to a new terminus at Beppu. On 3 March 1942 the Beppu-Ōita Electric Railway opened a short connecting section between Kamegawa and Kamegawa-Ekimae; that line, by then the Ōita Kōtsū Betsudai Line, was abolished in its entirety on 5 April 1972. Double-tracking of the section south to Higashi-Beppu was completed in 1966. Freight handling ended in 1984 and parcel handling in 1985. Control passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987; a Midori no Madoguchi opened in 1989. A new bridge station building entered service on 10 July 2010, and from 1 October 2023 direct JR Kyushu staff replaced the previous outsourced arrangement. Three tracks serve one side and one island platform.

Drawing on the station name's literal meaning of "turtle river," the station forecourt features parent-and-child turtle benches and a planting of kikkō-chiku ("tortoise-shell bamboo").