Karuga

Weekday departures: 34/day · Sat & holiday departures: 34/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:50 / 23:22

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

▃▆█▆▃▆ █▃▆▆▆█▃▆▃█▃▆
0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• JR Geibi Line: Shirakiyama ⇄ Kami-Fukawa

Karuga Station opened on 28 April 1915 with the inauguration of the Geibi Railway, and the line was nationalized on 1 July 1937. The current wooden, tile-roofed station building was completed in 1953. It was placed within JNR's Hiroshima City special-fare zone on 1 May 1973, then became a contracted-agent halt on 8 March 1983. It passed to the West Japan Railway Company at the 1 April 1987 privatization of JNR. The simplified-agent arrangement ended on 1 April 2007 and the station was fully destaffed; ICOCA acceptance began on 1 September of that year. Heavy rains in July 2018 destroyed the First Misasagawa Bridge between Karuga and Shirakiyama, severing the line; service was finally restored on 23 October 2019.