History
Bitchū-Hirose Station opened on 20 June 1926 when the Railway Ministry's Hakubi South Line was extended between Minagi and Kinoyama; the line was renamed the Hakubi Line in October 1928. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1963 and the station was destaffed on 1 October 1971. With the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. ICOCA-compatible simple gates were installed on 3 July 2007. On 7 July 2018 the entire station was inundated during the Heisei 30 western Japan flood disaster; the rebuilt station building, opened in July 2025, doubles as an emergency-refuge facility, with station functions downstairs, evacuation space upstairs, and an accessible rooftop.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After being submerged in the 2018 western-Japan flood, the rebuilt station building doubles as an emergency-refuge facility, with the platform-level floor below and an evacuation space above.