A poem written by Wakayama Bokusui, who attended Nobeoka Junior High School (currently Miyazaki Prefectural Nobeoka High School) is written on a large pillar at the entrance of the station building, and the illustration on the station name sign depicts an Ayu sweetfish crossing the Gokase River.

By 1923, the track had approached the southern terminus of the then Hoshū Line which JGR had been extending southwards from Kokura down the east coast of Kyushu to reach Shigeoka by March 1922.

The link up between the two lines was achieved on 15 December 1923, and through traffic was thus established from Kokura through Nobeoka to Miyakonojō.

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.

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