Higashi-Soja

Weekday departures: 57/day · Sat & holiday departures: 57/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:06 / 24:13

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)

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

• JR Kibi Line: Hattori ⇄ Sōja

Higashi-Soja Station opened on 15 November 1904 as the original Soja Station, with the opening of the Chugoku Railway's Kibi Line, then an intermediate stop on a line that continued west to Tan'i. The old line west of Soja was abolished on 17 February 1925, briefly making it the Kibi Line's terminus; on 7 August 1925 the JNR Hakubi South Line opened to Nishi-Soja (now Soja Station) and the station once again became an intermediate stop. It was renamed Higashi-Soja on 1 October 1959 — a month before Nishi-Soja took on the Soja name itself. The Chugoku Railway's rail operations were nationalised on 1 June 1944, and the station passed to JR West with the 1987 JNR privatisation. It became unstaffed in 2004 and gained ICOCA support in 2007.