History
Akitsu Station opened on 17 February 1935 as Akimitsu Station on the Ministry of Railways' Sankure Line (later the Kure Line), at the time of the line's extension from Takehara to what is now Yasuura. Through-completion later that year placed it on the Kure Line. It was renamed Akitsu on 20 November 1949. Goods handling ended on 1 April 1978 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985. With JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR West. The station was outsourced to JR West Hiroshima Mentec from 8 March 1997 and then placed under a simple-commission arrangement with the local town from 1 October 2003; that arrangement was inherited by Higashihiroshima City when Akitsu town was absorbed in 2005. ICOCA became available on 1 September 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was originally called Akimitsu, the Mitsu reading reflecting the local Mitsu place-name; it was renamed to the homophone Akitsu in 1949.