Station

Ukui

宇久井

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Ukui
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 19/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 19/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:59 / 22:46

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (2)


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

Ukui Station opened on 4 December 1912 as Ugui Station on the private Shingu Railway, with the spelling reflecting the local pronunciation of the surrounding place name. The Shingu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1934, at which point the reading was changed to the modern "Ukui". The route became the Kisei West Line in 1940 and the Kisei Main Line in July 1959. Freight handling ended in February 1962, parcel handling in April 1978, and the station was destaffed on 14 March 1985. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station passed to JR West, and ICOCA acceptance began on 13 March 2021 via on-board card readers.

Notes

Although the station's name was officially re-read as "Ukui" on nationalisation in 1934, the village place name is still read "Ugui" by locals today — a 90-year split between the station sign and the address.

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