History
Shiomachi Station opened on 22 April 1930 as Takō Station (田幸) on the Geibi Railway in what is now Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture. The Geibi Railway was nationalised in June 1933, becoming part of the Shōbara Line, and the station took its present name on 1 January 1934 — at which point the existing Shiomachi Station was renamed Kamisugi. Reorganisations in 1937 and 1938 placed the station on the Geibi Line and made it the junction with the Fukuen Line, where most Fukuen-bound trains continue through to Miyoshi. The station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and has been unstaffed since 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The wooden station building once doubled as the offices of a local taxi company, though the railway side of the building is now unattended.