Hattori

History

Hattori Station opened on 20 April 1908 on what was then the Chūgoku Railway Kibi Line, located 16.2 kilometres from the Okayama terminus in what is now Sōja, Okayama Prefecture. The Chūgoku Railway's operations were nationalised on 1 June 1944, bringing the station into the Japanese National Railways' Kibi Line; parcel handling ceased on 1 October 1968 and the station was destaffed at the same time. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it came under West Japan Railway Company, and a simple ICOCA-compatible automated gate was installed in 2007. The station building stands beside a single side platform on the north side of one bidirectional track.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

The station serves as the nearest railway access to Okayama Prefectural University, located just to its east; the Okayama Expressway runs on an elevated viaduct directly north of the platform.