The station building is a modern timber structure built to resemble a mountain cabin.

[2][3][4] The private Daito Railway (大湯鉄道) had opened a track between Ōita and Onoya in 1915.

Subsequently, the track was extended further west and Kita-Yamada was opened as the new western terminus on 16 September 1932.

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.

[7] Media related to Kita-Yamada Station at Wikimedia Commons This Oita Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.