History
Shin-ichi Station is a JR West Fukuen Line stop in Shin-ichi-chō Shin-ichi, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with part of the station property extending into Nakasu-chō, Fuchū. It opened on 21 July 1914 with the inauguration of the Ryōbi Light Railway, was renamed when the railway was rebranded the Ryōbi Railway on 26 June 1926, and was nationalized on 1 September 1933 as a Japanese Government Railways Fukuen Line station. The line was regauged from 762 mm to 1067 mm on 14 December 1935, after which freight traffic in Bingo-gasuri textiles peaked in the 1950s. It became a contracted station with freight services abolished on 10 December 1970, parcels were abolished on 1 November 1986, and it passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with the JNR privatization. The ticket window closed and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Although the station is officially in Fukuyama City, part of its site spills across the municipal boundary into Naka-su-chō in Fuchū City — a remnant of the 1935 realignment when the line was regauged. The nearby Kibitsu Shrine, the ichinomiya of the former Bingo Province, is reached on foot from the station.