History
Mirasaka Station opened on 15 November 1933 with the inauguration of the Tetsudōshō Fukuen-hoku Line between Takō (now Shiomachi) and Kisa, in what is now Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture. The Fukuen-hoku Line was absorbed into the Fukuen Line in July 1938, and the station became simply a Fukuen Line stop. The station was placed under simplified franchise operation in December 1985 and passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. A two-storey replacement building was funded by Mirasaka town in May 1990 using interest from the national "Furusato Sōsei" one-billion-yen grant programme. The station building today houses a rest area, a taxi office and a second-floor multipurpose hall, and the station itself is unattended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current station building, completed in May 1990, was paid for with the interest accrued on the cash gift handed to every Japanese municipality under the late-1980s Furusato Sōsei "hometown creation" programme.