History
Hiro Station opened on 24 March 1935 as the terminus when the Ministry of Railways extended the Kure Line east from Kure. On 24 November that year the line was pushed further east to Mitsuutsumi (today's Yasuura), and Hiro became an intermediate stop. Freight handling ended in 1986 and the station passed to JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The 1996 introduction of a Kure–Hiroshima non-stop rapid service made Hiro a key stop on the Hiroshima City Network, and the station is now the operational boundary on the Kure Line: most through services east of Hiro require a transfer. The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter closed at the end of January 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's telegraph code is the unusual two-kana "クヒ" — derived from "Kure Line's Hiro" — because the more obvious "ヒロ" was already assigned to Hiroshima Station.