History
Tokuyama Station opened on 25 September 1897 as the terminus of the San'yō Railway's westward extension from Hiroshima, becoming a through station the following March when the line reached Mitajiri (now Hōfu). The railway was nationalised in 1906 and the route renamed the San'yō Main Line in 1909. The Gantoku Line opened on 1 December 1934, branching off the next stop east at Kushigahama. San'yō Shinkansen service began on 10 March 1975 with the Okayama–Hakata extension, and Nozomi trains have called here since October 2003. JR West succeeded JNR at privatisation in 1987. A new elevated conventional-line concourse opened on 6 September 2014 alongside a north–south passageway.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tokuyama's Shinkansen platforms sit on a curve of just 1,600 m radius, forcing non-stop trains to slow to 185 km/h — leaving stopped cars visibly tilted toward the harbour-side platform.