Mede

Weekday departures: 20/day · Sat & holiday departures: 20/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:27 / 22:23

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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• Onoda Line: Onoda ⇄ Minami-Nakagawa

Mede Station, in San'yō-Onoda, opened on 25 November 1915 when the Onoda Light Railway extended its line from Onoda to present-day Onodakō (then Cement-chō). The operator was renamed Onoda Railway in June 1923 and nationalised on 1 April 1943, when the line became the JNR Onoda Line. After brief reorganisation into the Ube-nishi Line in 1947 it returned to the Onoda Line designation on 1 February 1948. The station was destaffed on 8 March 1983 and the station building was rebuilt in 1984. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred the station to JR West. The station now consists of a single island platform served by passing-loop tracks 9.7 km from Inō.

Trading on the auspicious-sounding pun "medetai" (congratulatory), Mede sold 37,000 platform tickets in 1974 alone; a 1982 revival stamped each ticket with a sea-bream design and shifted another 10,000 in short order.