Akitsu (Hiroshima)

Known weekday departures: 37/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 37/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:34 / 22:24

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• JR Kure Line: Yoshina ⇄ Kazahaya

Akitsu Station opened on 17 February 1935 as Akimitsu Station on the Ministry of Railways' Sankure Line (later the Kure Line), at the time of the line's extension from Takehara to what is now Yasuura. Through-completion later that year placed it on the Kure Line. It was renamed Akitsu on 20 November 1949. Goods handling ended on 1 April 1978 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985. With JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR West. The station was outsourced to JR West Hiroshima Mentec from 8 March 1997 and then placed under a simple-commission arrangement with the local town from 1 October 2003; that arrangement was inherited by Higashihiroshima City when Akitsu town was absorbed in 2005. ICOCA became available on 1 September 2007.

The station opened in 1935 as Akimitsu Station, the Mitsu element coming from the Mitsu district of Akitsu that it serves; it was renamed Akitsu Station on 20 November 1949.