History
Hase Station opened on 15 January 1895 as a temporary terminus of the Bantan Railway extended north from Himeji; the line was pushed further north to Ikuno on 17 April 1895. The station building was relocated on 31 August 1896. The Bantan Railway was transferred to Sanyō Railway on 1 June 1903, and on 1 December 1906 the Sanyō Railway was nationalised, making Hase a state-railway station; line nomenclature on 12 October 1909 placed it on the Bantan Line. Freight was discontinued on 1 March 1963 and parcel handling on 1 April 1973, when the station became unstaffed (signalling staff continued temporarily). On 1 April 1987 JR West took over. The station building stopped being used around 1988 and the underground passage from the platform is now the only access. Limited-stop service began in March 2012 but in March 2021 the rapid services were abolished and all line locals once again call at every station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Per the English Wikipedia article, fiscal 2016 saw an average of just 19 daily boarding passengers at Hase, making it the least-used station on the Bantan Line according to the Japanese Wikipedia article.