Station

Shiomachi

塩町

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Shiomachi
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 24/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 24/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:12 / 21:09

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (3)


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).

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Shiomachi Station opened on 22 April 1930 as Takō Station (田幸) on the Geibi Railway in what is now Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture. The Geibi Railway was nationalised in June 1933, becoming part of the Shōbara Line, and the station took its present name on 1 January 1934 — at which point the existing Shiomachi Station was renamed Kamisugi. Reorganisations in 1937 and 1938 placed the station on the Geibi Line and made it the junction with the Fukuen Line, where most Fukuen-bound trains continue through to Miyoshi. The station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and has been unstaffed since 2005.

Notes

The wooden station building once doubled as the offices of a local taxi company, though the railway side of the building is now unattended.

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