History
Mukaihara Station opened on 28 April 1915 in what is now the city of Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture, on the JNR (now JR West) Geibi Line, 25.8 km from Miyoshi and 116.1 km from the line's southern terminus at Bitchū-Kōjirō. The current station building was completed in March 1986 and combines the ticket gates with a supermarket and the Akitakata City Local Industry Promotion Center, with platform access by footbridge from the second floor. Mukaihara passed to JR West at the breakup of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The station consists of one island platform serving two tracks and is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1986 station building is unusual on the rural Geibi Line for combining the railway facilities with a full-sized supermarket and a municipal industry-promotion centre under a single roof.