Motoyama (Kagawa · JR Shikoku)

Known weekday departures: 44/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 44/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:04 / 23:42

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (4)

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:

• Yosan Line: one direction only
• Yosan Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Yosan Line: Hijidai ⇄ Kan'onji

Motoyama opened on 20 December 1913 on the line that became the JNR Yosan Line. At the planning stage the station was to be placed near Motoyama-ji Temple in the former Motoyama village hamlet of Jike, but local opposition pushed the alignment west and the station was built in Okamoto in the former Kuwayama village instead, prompting a contemporary dispute over the station name. Freight handling ended on 1 June 1970. The station became a contracted-service station on 8 November 1971 and was downgraded to an unstaffed halt with parcel handling withdrawn on 1 February 1984. On 15 February 1987 it was restaffed as a direct-management station with a kiosk attached, and passed to JR Shikoku at privatisation on 1 April 1987. It was destaffed again on 1 October 2010.

Heavy rain repeatedly closed the line through here, earning Motoyama the nickname "Mizu no Motoyama" (Motoyama of the Waters); after the 1965 floods the track and platforms were raised. The point switches here use elastic-rail turnouts, the first of their kind to be installed on a Japanese conventional line, and there is a record of trains passing over them at 160 km/h.