History
Tabuse Station opened on 25 September 1897 on the San'yō Railway when the line was extended from Hiroshima to Tokuyama. The line was nationalised in 1906 and renamed the San'yō Main Line in 1909. Between December 1934 and October 1944 the station belonged to the spun-off Yanai Line, returning to the San'yō Main Line after that route was double-tracked. Freight ended in 1963 and parcel handling in 1985. With JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. ICOCA went live on 12 March 2022, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi staffed counter closed on 31 March 2022, after which the station was destaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In March 1968 the Diet's Upper House transport committee questioned whether the lounge room inside the 1959 station building had in fact been built as a VIP room for then-prime-minister Eisaku Satō — whose tomb stands nearby — to flatter his preference for express stops; JNR denied the suggestion.