History
Hirata Station (Ohmi Railway number OR19) opened on 29 December 1913 as a station on the Konan Railway in Hirata-chō, Higashiōmi, Shiga. It passed to Biwako Tetsudō Kisen on 15 May 1927, to the Yōkaichi Railway on 1 April 1929, and to Ohmi Railway on 1 March 1944. A new station building was completed on 20 November 2006, incorporating a community hall in the same structure. The station was scheduled to become entirely unstaffed on 1 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The Hirata station building doubles as a community centre for the surrounding neighbourhood, and the platforms were widened in around 1996 to bring the up and down sides closer together, prompting removal of the down-direction starter signal on the up-line platform.