History
Miyauchi opened on 15 July 1925 as an intermediate stop when the Hiroden Miyajima Line was extended from Hatsukaichi-machi to Jigozen. Although a working name of Kushido had been proposed, it was dropped before opening. The original location was about 11.1 km from Kogichō, near the west portal of the Miyajima Line's only tunnel, the Kushido Tunnel. In the spring of 1945 the station was moved 0.4 km west to its present site to serve commuters to a weapons plant in the Ōgi-shinkai district to the south; troops are reported to have departed for the front from the relocated station during the war.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Miyauchi sits about three minutes' walk south-east of JR West's Miyauchi-Kushido Station on the Sanyō Main Line, the larger interchange of the two; unlike its JR neighbour, Miyauchi has no bus terminal or taxi rank of its own.