History
Hachihommatsu Station is a JR West stop on the San'yō Main Line in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, 278.9 kilometres from Kobe. It opened on 4 April 1895 when the San'yō Railway extended between Saijō and Seno, initially as a ground-level station with its entrance on the north side. The line was nationalised on 1 December 1906 and renamed the San'yō Main Line on 12 October 1909. With rapid postwar development on the south side, a new overpass station building opened on 16 March 1968 to serve both flanks. Freight ended in 1974 and parcels in 1985. The station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and lost its Midori no Madoguchi on 30 November 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
At 255 metres above sea level Hachihommatsu is the highest station on the San'yō Main Line, and the climb up to it from Seno includes the famously steep 22.6-per-mille "Senohachi" grade.