History
Shōbara Station opened on 10 June 1910 as the temporary terminus of the Railway Agency's San'in Main Line as it was extended west from Shinji. Four months later, on 10 October 1910, the line reached the present Izumoshi Station and Shōbara became an intermediate stop. Freight handling ceased in February 1972 and parcel handling in March 1985. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 at the privatisation of JNR, was unstaffed from March 1991, and gained an ICOCA-compatible simple gate in December 2016. A new single-storey station building, around 58 square metres, opened on 9 March 2020 with combined waiting room and toilet.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original layout of three tracks across two platform faces was simplified during a San'in Line speed-up project, with one of the island-platform tracks removed.