History
Bingo-Honjō Station opened on 1 February 1940 on the Fukuen Line, the Fukuyama-Miyoshi route inherited by Japanese National Railways after the line's 1935 acquisition from the private Ryōbi Railway. The stop sits 1.8 kilometers from the Fukuyama terminus in Hiroshima Prefecture. With the dissolution of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to the West Japan Railway Company, and it was destaffed in 1991. Originally built with two opposed side platforms, the eastern side was retired after Yokoo Station's passing loop was restored, and the disused platform has since been planted with cherry trees. The current simple station building was added when ICOCA wickets were installed in 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The retired eastern platform has been planted with sakura trees, and the National Railways-era station name sign — repainted in its original design for the Fukuen Line's 2014 centenary — still stands there.