Yokoku

Weekday departures: 60/day · Sat & holiday departures: 60/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:58 / 23:57

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

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: Hiji ⇄ Bungo-Toyooka

Yōkoku Station was opened by Japanese National Railways on 9 March 1987, as a late-stage addition to the existing Nippō Main Line in the centre of Hiji, Ōita Prefecture, less than a month before the privatisation that transferred it to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987. In 2016 the town of Hiji completed a major urban redevelopment that shifted the station 100 metres east and erected a new concrete building incorporating a staffed ticket window, a waiting area, a community gallery and a footbridge serving the opposite platform. The footbridge doubles as a 24-hour free public passage between the streets on either side of the tracks.