Hachihommatsu

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

First / last train (weekday): 5:16 / 24:34

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (12)

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

• JR Sanyō Main Line: Jike ⇄ Seno (Hiroshima)

Hachihommatsu Station is a JR West stop on the San'yō Main Line in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, 278.9 kilometres from Kobe. It opened on 4 April 1895 when the San'yō Railway extended between Saijō and Seno, initially as a ground-level station with its entrance on the north side. The line was nationalised on 1 December 1906 and renamed the San'yō Main Line on 12 October 1909. With rapid postwar development on the south side, a new overpass station building opened on 16 March 1968 to serve both flanks. Freight ended in 1974 and parcels in 1985. The station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and lost its Midori no Madoguchi on 30 November 2023.

At 255 metres above sea level Hachihommatsu is the highest station on the San'yō Main Line, and the climb up to it from Seno includes the famously steep 22.6-per-mille "Senohachi" grade.