History
Nagato-Ōi Station opened on 24 April 1929 in Ōi, present-day Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, when the Japanese Government Railways Mine Line was extended between Higashi-Hagi and Nago, handling passengers and freight from the outset. The relevant section was absorbed into the San'in Main Line on 24 February 1933. Freight ended on 1 February 1963 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station was destaffed on 14 March 1985 and passed to JR West at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The wooden station building survives. Two opposed side platforms with a passing loop are connected by a footbridge, and a rainfall gauge is installed; landslides closed the line for months in 1980 and again in mid-2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
For years the wooden station building doubled as the "Kaneko" barbershop, and a simple-contract ticket window inside was closed every Monday when the barbershop took its weekly rest.