History
Hiyoshi Station opened on 25 August 1910 as Tonoda Station, at Honoda-Ichino, Hiyoshi-chō, Nantan, Kyoto Prefecture, when the Railway Bureau extended its Kyoto Line from Sonobe to Ayabe; the line was renamed the San'in Main Line on 1 March 1912. Freight handling ended on 21 January 1984, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and the station passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. From 1 April 1991 it came under the Maizuru Railway Sub-Bureau. On 16 March 1996 — coinciding with the opening of the adjacent Shinkyū University-mae Station — the station was renamed Hiyoshi to match the contemporary town name. The sub-bureau was abolished on 1 July 2006, returning the station to direct Fukuchiyama Branch management (managed by Nishi-Maizuru), and the centennial of the original opening was celebrated on 22 August 2010. The ICOCA IC card became usable on 13 March 2021, and on 1 June 2022 management was moved to Fukuchiyama Station; from 1 October 2022 organisational reform placed the station under the Fukuchiyama Management Division of the Kinki Statistical Headquarters.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station building shares its site with the Nantan City Hiyoshi-eki Exchange Centre, and in 2025 local volunteers installed a Street Piano in the centre's interior. Hiyoshi was once at the junction of a proposed branch (the Kotsuru Line) that would have run from this station to Obama in Fukui Prefecture, though the line was never built.