Hatabu

Weekday departures: 130/day · Sat & holiday departures: 130/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:40 / 23:48

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (11)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• San'in Main Line: Ayaragi
• JR Sanyō Main Line: Shin-Shimonoseki ⇄ Shimonoseki

Hatabu Station opened on 27 May 1901 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, when the Sanyō Railway extended its trunk line from Asa to Bakan (today's Shimonoseki). Nationalised in 1906, the route took the Sanyō Main Line name in 1909. The privately operated Chōshū Railway joined the station in 1914; it was nationalised in 1925 as the Ogushi Line, later folded into the San'in Main Line in 1933. A 1928 realignment of the Sanyō Main Line between Chōfu and Shimonoseki moved the station to its current site on 19 November of that year. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred operations to JR West, and the station became unstaffed in September 2025.

Hatabu is the nominal western terminus of the San'in Main Line at 673.8 km from Kyoto, yet every San'in Main Line train continues another 3.5 km to terminate at Shimonoseki Station instead.