Oitadaigaku-mae Station (大分大学前駅, Ōitadaigaku-mae eki) is a passenger railway station located in Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.[1][2]
The station is served by the Hōhi Main Line and is located 138.8 km from the starting point of the line at Kumamoto.[3]
The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. The station building is a modern wooden structure equipped with a staffed ticket window, an automatic vending machine and a SUGOCA card reader. After the ticket gate, a long sheltered ramp leads down to the platform, which is located at a lower level.[2][3]
Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket booth which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[4][5]
JR Kyushu (JNR) opened the station on 23 March 2002 as an additional station on the existing track of the Hōhi Main Line.[3]
In February 2018, JR Kyushu announced that the station would become unstaffed in the autumn of 2018 after completing barrier-free improvements and introducing the "Smart Support" remote station management scheme.[6]
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,604 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 113th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[7]
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