Oyama (Kagoshima)

Weekday departures: 15/day · Sat & holiday departures: 15/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:58 / 21:17

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Ibusuki Makurazaki Line: Yamakawa ⇄ Nishi-Oyama

Ōyama Station opened on 22 March 1960 as a JNR Ibusuki Line station. The Ibusuki Line was renamed the Ibusuki-Makurazaki Line on 31 October 1963 and the station became part of that line. With the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu. The station originally had an island platform serving two tracks and operated as a passing point, but today only one of those platforms is in use as a single side platform with one track; traces of the original layout can still be seen in the trackwork, along with stockpiled sleepers and bridge materials in the yard. The station is unstaffed; there is no station building, but a passenger canopy stands on the platform.

The station-name signboards at Ōyama were updated from the JR Kyushu standard design to a custom design featuring the giant eels of nearby Lake Ikeda, the bamboo of Takeyama, and animals from the Nagasakibana Parking Garden zoo. The station sits on a plateau formed by thick deposits of the Ata pyroclastic flow (tens of thousands to about 100,000 years old); from the platform the southerly slope offers a wide sea-side view, and visible from the train are Japan's southernmost geothermal power plant (Kyushu Electric's Yamakawa plant) and the strange rock formations along the East China Sea coast.