History
Bingo-Shōbara Station opened on 8 December 1923 as the terminus of the Geibi Railway's extension from Shiomachi Station (now Kamisugi). The Geibi Railway was nationalised on 1 June 1933, when the section became the Shōbara Line; the line was extended further to Bingo-Nishijō Station on 15 March 1934, demoting the station to an intermediate stop. The line was renamed the Sanjin Line on 10 October 1936 and absorbed into the Geibi Line on 1 July 1937. Freight handling ended on 25 December 1983 and parcel service on 1 November 1986. The station passed to West Japan Railway Company (JR West) at the 1 April 1987 privatisation and became a simplified consigned station on 23 March 2002.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station carries the "Bingo-" prefix to distinguish it from Shōbara Station on the San'in Main Line, which opened in 1910.