[5][6] The private Miyazaki Light Railway (宮崎軽便鉄道) (later renamed the Miyazaki Railway) opened the station on 31 October 1913 as the northern terminus of a line to Uchiumi (now closed) on the east coast of Kyushu.

On 25 October 1916, the track at Kiyotake was linked up with the Japanese Government Railways Miyazaki Line which had been extended northwards from Aoidake.

On 15 December 1923, the entire stretch of track from Shigeoka through Miyazaki to Yoshimatsu, including Minami-Miyazaki, was designated as part of the Nippō Main Line.

Using the route, Japanese National Railways extended its then Shibushi Line north from Kitagō.

[8][9] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, Minami-Miyazaki came under the control of JR Kyushu.