History
Hōki-Daisen Station opened on 1 December 1902 as Kumantō Station on the state-built San'in line between Yodoe and Yonago. Freight handling began the following August. The station was renamed Daisen on 1 October 1911 and to its present name on 1 May 1917. It became the junction with the Hakubi-North Line on 10 August 1919, when that line opened to Hōki-Mizoguchi. The Hakubi-North Line was absorbed into the Hakubi Line in 1928, making Hōki-Daisen its formal northern terminus. The current station building dates from December 1981. With the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 it became jointly operated by JR West and JR Freight, and dedicated container handling for the adjacent Oji Paper Yonago Mill commenced in 1989.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station is the formal northern terminus of the Hakubi Line, but no train actually terminates here — all Hakubi Line services run through onto San'in Main Line tracks to Yonago, with some continuing to Izumoshi.