History
Shin-Yamaguchi Station opened on 3 December 1900 as Ogōri Station on the privately operated San'yō Railway when the line was extended from Mitajiri (today Hōfu) to Asa. The San'yō Railway was nationalised in 1906 and the route became the San'yō Main Line in 1909. The Yamaguchi Line joined in February 1913 and the Ube Railway (later the Ube Line) on 26 March 1925. The San'yō Shinkansen station opened on 10 March 1975, and JR West succeeded JNR at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station took its current name on 1 October 2003 when it became a Nozomi stop, with Yamaguchi Prefecture and the relevant municipalities splitting half of the roughly 429-million-yen renaming cost.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Shinkansen platforms got a "Galaxy Express 999" departure jingle in March 2020 when Mizuho services began stopping at Shin-Yamaguchi — the same chime used at Hiroshima.