History
Nanatsuka Station opened on 8 December 1923 with the extension of the private Geibi Railway from Shiomachi (now Kamisugi) to Bingo-Shōbara. The Geibi Railway was nationalised on 1 June 1933 and the section became the JNR Shōbara Line, soon absorbed into the Mishin Line in 1936 and the Geibi Line in 1937. The station was destaffed on 1 September 1972 and passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987. It remains a single-platform unstaffed halt with only a small waiting room and toilet, set in a rural part of Shōbara, Hiroshima.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current platform toilet was newly built in 1998 when the Crown Prince and Princess (the present Emperor and Empress) visited nearby Bihoku Hillside Park via this station.