History
Karuga Station opened on 28 April 1915 with the inauguration of the Geibi Railway, and the line was nationalized on 1 July 1937. The current wooden, tile-roofed station building was completed in 1953. It was placed within JNR's Hiroshima City special-fare zone on 1 May 1973, then became a contracted-agent halt on 8 March 1983. It passed to the West Japan Railway Company at the 1 April 1987 privatization of JNR. The simplified-agent arrangement ended on 1 April 2007 and the station was fully destaffed; ICOCA acceptance began on 1 September of that year. Heavy rains in July 2018 destroyed the First Misasagawa Bridge between Karuga and Shirakiyama, severing the line; service was finally restored on 23 October 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.