History
Hirohata Station opened on 23 December 1940 as Nittetsumae Station, marking the end of a westward extension of the Sanyo Railway Aboshi Line from Yumesakigawa to a temporary terminus serving the adjacent Nippon Steel works. With the line’s further extension to Dentetsu-Tenma (now Sanyo-Temma) on 27 April 1941, the station was renamed Hirohata Station, moved to its present site, and became intermediate. The station building was rebuilt on 30 November 1974. Today the station lies in Hirohata-ku of Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, at 4.7 kilometres from the line’s eastern terminus at Shikama, with two opposed side platforms linked by a level crossing and a single entrance at the eastern end. It is designated SY 53 and is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.