History
Hōgi Station serves the Hōgi neighbourhood of Tottori City on the San'in Main Line, 244.7 km from Kyoto, operated by JR West. It opened on 28 April 1907 with the Imperial Railway Agency's extension from Tottori Provisional Station to Aoya, and was placed on the San'in Main Line under the 1909 line-naming reform. Freight handling ended on 1 December 1970, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and the station was destaffed on 16 March 1991; over-the-counter ticket sales were withdrawn on 31 March 2022. JR West took over on 1 April 1987, and ICOCA became usable on 15 March 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's 2003 prefectural rail-speedup programme passed by without converting it to a single-line passing layout, leaving Hōgi as one of the few Tottori-area San'in Main Line stops still with directional platform assignments.