History
Hesaka Station is a JR West stop on the Geibi Line in Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, station number JR-P03. It opened on 15 April 1916 as a halt on the Geibi Railway, after local volunteers led by the Hesaka village head donated 100 tsubo of land and 600 yen toward construction costs to persuade the railway to add a station within the village. The Geibi Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1937. The station became unstaffed on 20 December 1971 and was incorporated into JNR's 'within Hiroshima City' fare district in September 1972. A simple new building replaced the original in March 1978, and the station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Hesaka exists only because local villagers raised the money for it: opening-day fares were 16 sen between Hiroshima Higashi and Hesaka — an expensive ride at the time — yet Hesaka now ranks behind only Aki-Yaguchi for passenger volume among the Geibi Line's intermediate stations.