History
Ōmachi Station is a combined facility in Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima, built jointly by JR West and Hiroshima Rapid Transit and connected by an overpass between two physically separate buildings. It opened on 20 August 1994 with the inauguration of the Astram Line; the JR West Kabe Line stop on the existing embankment was infilled the same day so that the two networks could exchange passengers, a function the station retains today. The site sits close to the former Yasu Station, which was suspended in 1943 and never reopened. The JR side was assigned number JR-B08 and the Astram Line uses a yellow-green livery for the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From its 1994 opening through fiscal 2014, Ōmachi was the busiest station on the Kabe Line, exceeding the line's namesake terminus at Kabe; it slipped to second place behind Shimo-Gion only after Shin-Hakushima opened in fiscal 2015 and offered another JR-to-Astram interchange.