History
Shōyama Station opened on 28 November 1923 as the terminus of the Hakubi North Line extended from Kurosaka by the Ministry of Railways. A further extension on 6 December 1924 made it an intermediate stop, and on 25 October 1928 the route was absorbed into the Hakubi Line. Freight handling ended in 1982 and parcel service in 1985. The station passed to JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The station building has since been rebuilt as part of a community-exchange facility called Clover. ICOCA support was introduced on 17 December 2016, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter closed on 30 June 2021, with the station becoming fully unstaffed the following day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
About half of the limited express "Yakumo" services call here, and on those trains the final downbound service of the day skips both Shōyama and the neighbouring Ne-u Station.