Hibayama

Weekday departures: 11/day · Sat & holiday departures: 11/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:56 / 19:33

Busiest hour: 14:00–15:00 (2)

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

• JR Geibi Line: Bingo-Ochiai ⇄ Bingo-Saijo

Hibayama Station opened on 20 December 1935 as Bingo-Kumano Station, named for Kumano Shrine roughly eight kilometres to the northwest, and the original station building was designed to resemble a Shinto shrine to reflect that role. The station joined the Geibi Line in July 1937 when the formerly private Geibi Railway was nationalised. Freight and parcel handling ended on 1 September 1972, when the station was also unstaffed. It became part of JR West on 1 April 1987 at JNR privatisation, and the local commission-based ticket sales ended on 31 March 2008. The station was renamed Hibayama on 20 December 1956 to reflect its new role as the gateway to Mount Hiba, designated a prefectural park in 1952. It lies 50.2 km from Bitchū-Kōjiro on the Geibi Line.

Today's Hibayama serves an average of about two passengers a day and is connected to its neighbour Bingo-Ochiai by a 5.6-km section so heavily slow-ordered that trains take 16 minutes, twice the eight minutes scheduled in the autumn 2001 timetable.