Genbudo

Weekday departures: 30/day · Sat & holiday departures: 30/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:51 / 22:23

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• San'in Main Line: Kinosaki-Onsen ⇄ Toyooka (Hyogo)

Gembudō Station opened on 2 March 1912 as a provisional seasonal stop on the Imperial Railway Agency's San'in Main Line, between Toyooka and what is now Kinosakionsen Station. It was upgraded to a year-round passenger station on 21 April 1918. Parcel handling ended in December 1970 and the station was left unstaffed. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways it passed to JR West. A March 2012 timetable revision saw some local trains begin skipping the station; those services were redesignated Rapid in March 2013, but the Rapid category was abolished from 13 March 2021. The station sits at the gateway to the basalt-column Gembudō Caves, reached by ferry across the Maruyama River.

From the station forecourt, the easiest route to the Gembudō Caves is not by road but by a roughly seven-minute reservation-only ferry crossing of the Maruyama River.