Hataya

Weekday departures: 21/day · Sat & holiday departures: 21/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:36 / 21:58

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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

• Kisuki Line: Kamonaka ⇄ Izumo-Daitō

Hataya Station opened on 11 February 1918 as a halt on the privately operated Hinokami Railway between Kamo-naka and Daitōchō (present-day Izumo-Daitō), in what is now Unnan, Shimane Prefecture. The Ministry of Railways recognised it as a full station on 29 March 1921. The Hinokami Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1934, bringing the line into the Kisuki Line. Rationalisation in 1954 nearly closed the station, but a year of local campaigning secured its retention and a 1956 goods-platform expansion. Goods services ended in October 1971 and ticketing was contracted out that November. JR West took over in April 1987, the wooden building was replaced by a small shelter in 1994, and the contract arrangement ended in March 2015.

When the Hinokami Railway was nationalised in 1934 the line was renamed the Kisuki Line; Hataya is one of the original 1918 halts that survived a 1954 closure proposal thanks to a year of organised resident opposition.