Station

Hachihommatsu

八本松

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Hachihommatsu
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 140/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 140/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:16 / 24:34 (00:34 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 18:00–19:00 (12)


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).

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Hachihommatsu Station is a JR West stop on the San'yō Main Line in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, 278.9 kilometres from Kobe. It opened on 4 April 1895 as a new station on the San'yō Railway between Saijō and Seno, initially as a ground-level station with its entrance on the north side. The line was nationalised on 1 December 1906 and renamed the San'yō Main Line on 12 October 1909. With rapid postwar development on the south side, a new overpass station building opened on 16 March 1968 to serve both flanks. Freight ended in 1974 and parcels in 1985. The station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and lost its Midori no Madoguchi on 30 November 2023.

Notes

At 255 metres above sea level Hachihommatsu is the highest station on the San'yō Main Line, and the climb up to it from Seno includes the famously steep 22.6-per-mille "Senohachi" grade.

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