Bingo-Ochiai

Weekday departures: 13/day · Sat & holiday departures: 13/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:41 / 20:40

Busiest hour: 14:00–15:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Geibi Line: Dogoyama ⇄ Hibayama
• Kisuki Line: Yuki (Hiroshima)

Bingo-Ochiai Station opened on 20 December 1935 as the terminus of the JNR Shōbara Line's extension from Bingo-Saijō. When the line was through-connected to Bitchū Kōjiro the following October, it became an intermediate stop on the renamed Sanshin Line, which was renamed again to the Geibi Line at nationalisation on 1 July 1937. From 12 December 1937 the Kisuki Line terminated here, making Bingo-Ochiai a three-way junction with locomotive change facilities, dormitories, and over 200 staff at its peak. Freight ended in 1972 and the station was de-staffed on 22 March 1997. Today fewer than a dozen trains per day call across the three lines.

Pre-war Ochiai supported two inns, taxis, restaurants, and barbershops along the station approach — known informally as 'Ochiai Ginza' — until depopulation and the diesel transition gutted the neighbourhood in the late 20th century.