History
Mega Station opened on 19 August 1923 with the inauguration of the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway, on what is now the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line in the Shikama ward of Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture. The operator was absorbed by Ujigawa Electric in 1927, and the railway division was spun off as the Sanyo Electric Railway in 1933. Freight services ran from 1929 until they were discontinued in December 1934. The station became an express stop on 15 April 1949, but lost express service in March 1984 and was served only by local trains until S-Express service was introduced in 1991. The station building was rebuilt in 1983 and the ticket window has since been unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The place name "Mega" (妻鹿) is said to come from a pair of deer who once lived nearby - the buck swam to the offshore Ieshima islands, leaving the doe behind - and a sister island there is still called Tangashima ("buck island"), though local records from 1289 actually use a different spelling.