The station building, a wooden strutre of traditional Japanese design with white plaster walls and a tiled roof, is unstaffed and serves only to house a waiting room and an automatic ticket vending machine.

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

By 1923, the track had reached Yunohira and then, on 29 July 1925, Yufuin (then known as Kita-Yufuin) was established as the new western terminus.

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.

[6] Media related to Minami-Yufu Station at Wikimedia Commons This Oita Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.