Hiroshima (JR West)

Known weekday departures: 499/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 499/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:40 / 24:04 (00:04 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 17:00–18:00 (34)

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 17 April 2026 to 2 May 2026 (latest retrieval in spring/summer 2026): the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• JR Geibi Line: Yaga (Hiroshima)
• San'yo Shinkansen: Higashi-Hiroshima ⇄ Shin-Iwakuni
• JR Sanyo Main Line: Shin-Hakushima ⇄ Tenjingawa

Hiroshima Station is a major terminal in Minami-ku, Hiroshima, operated by JR West, and the calling point for every San'yō Shinkansen service. The station was originally reached by the San'yō Railway in 1894 and absorbed into the nationalised network in 1906. San'yō Shinkansen service began on 10 March 1975; until that point the present Shinkansen-side entrance was known locally as the "north" entrance. A 2017 reconstruction of the south side eliminated the longstanding bottleneck that forced south-entrance passengers to pass over platform 1 to reach other tracks, and a new concourse-level south entrance opened on 28 May 2017.

Even after the Shinkansen opened in 1975, many Hiroshima residents — along with local newspapers and property advertisements — went on calling the Shinkansen entrance the "north" entrance, the name it had carried until then.