Kashiwabara

Known weekday departures: 72/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 72/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:43 / 23:45

Busiest hour in the available data: 15:00–16:00 (5)

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).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tokaido Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Tokaido Main Line: Sekigahara ⇄ Omi-Nagaoka

Kashiwabara Station opened on 21 February 1900 on the Imperial Government Railways Tōkaidō Line, between Sekigahara and what is now Ōmi-Nagaoka, when a new lower-gradient alignment replaced the original 1883 route that had threaded the mountains via Fukaya to Nagahama. The original line, with its 25-permille continuous climb between Sekigahara and Fukaya, had become a notorious bottleneck; the easier-graded replacement opened in October 1899 and was the basis for the new station here. Freight handling ended on 16 September 1960, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central at the JNR privatisation. A JR all-line ticket window opened in March 1993, and TOICA IC cards became usable on 2 March 2019.

Kashiwabara Station lies about a kilometre from the Gifu border, making it the easternmost JR station in Shiga Prefecture and indeed in the entire Kinki region's two metropolitan prefectures and four prefectures; in the steam-locomotive era when limited expresses Tsubame and Hato ran here, station staff were required to report each train's passing time directly to the JNR head office.