Seno (Hiroshima)

Weekday departures: 140/day · Sat & holiday departures: 140/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:26 / 24:23

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (12)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• JR Sanyō Main Line: Hachihommatsu ⇄ Nakanohigashi

Seno Station opened on 10 June 1894 as a signal stop on the private San'yō Railway's new Itozaki–Hiroshima section; the line was nationalised in 1906 and re-named the San'yō Main Line in 1909. Seno marks the western end of the famously steep Seno-hachi climb to Hachihonmatsu, and for decades it housed a banking-engine depot whose locomotives pushed up-bound trains up the grade. The 1987 privatisation transferred the station to JR West; the present overhead-concourse building, with two island platforms and four tracks, opened on 30 March 1997. ICOCA acceptance began on 1 September 2007. The Midori-no-Madoguchi office closed on 30 September 2023, leaving an outsourced staff arrangement.

Until its 2024 closure, the unique Skyrail Midorizaka monorail-cum-aerial-tramway connected Seno with the hillside Skyrail Town Midorizaka development above the station; its terminus, Midoriguchi, stood immediately adjacent to Seno on the north side.