History
Mihara Station opened on 10 June 1894 when the San'yō Railway was extended from Itozaki — itself originally called Mihara — onward to Hiroshima, with the new station taking the Mihara name and the older terminus renamed Itozaki. The line was nationalised in 1906. Following the JNR privatisation of 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR West, with JR Freight retaining a depot function. The San'yō Shinkansen extension from Okayama to Hakata opened with a Shinkansen platform at Mihara on 10 March 1975, after the city secured signatures from local landowners to overturn an earlier plan favouring Onomichi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Shinkansen platform exists because Mayor Shōzō Nagao gathered signatures from 3,828 landowners and residents in January 1969, persuading JNR to switch the planned mid-section stop from Onomichi to Mihara.