Hiro

Known weekday departures: 65/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 65/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 4:58 / 23:08

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (6)

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: Shin-Hiro ⇄ Nigata

Hiro Station opened on 24 March 1935 as the terminus when the Ministry of Railways extended the Kure Line east from Kure. On 24 November that year the line was pushed further east to Mitsuutsumi (today's Yasuura), and Hiro became an intermediate stop. Freight handling ended in 1986 and the station passed to JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The 1996 introduction of a Kure–Hiroshima non-stop rapid service made Hiro a key stop on the Hiroshima City Network, and the station is now the operational boundary on the Kure Line: most through services east of Hiro require a transfer. The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter closed at the end of January 2021.

The station's telegraph code is the unusual two-kana "クヒ" — derived from "Kure Line's Hiro" — because the more obvious "ヒロ" was already assigned to Hiroshima Station.