Kimmeiji

Weekday departures: 23/day · Sat & holiday departures: 23/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:25 / 22:30

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

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

• Gantoku Line: Hashirano ⇄ Kuga

Kimmeiji Station opened on 27 September 1990 on the JR West Gantoku Line between Hashirano and Kuga, in a rural corner of what was then Kuga, Yamaguchi Prefecture. It was a petition station: the local "New Station Promotion Association" funded its entire construction at a cost of about 25 million yen, and it remains the only station the Gantoku Line has gained since the JR-era reorganisation. The site has been unstaffed from the start, with no station building, only a single side platform on an embankment and a small prefabricated waiting room. The 2006 merger that created the second-generation city of Iwakuni shifted the address to Iwakuni-shi.

Kimmeiji is the only new station the Gantoku Line has gained since JR West took over in 1987; locals paid the full ~25 million yen construction cost themselves to bring it about.