History
Omura-Jinja-Mae Station opened on 15 March 2008 as a new infill stop on the existing Dosan Line in the village of Hidaka, Takaoka District, Kōchi Prefecture, named after the nearby Omura Shrine. Its construction was approved as a regional-development measure tied to a planned industrial-waste processing facility in Hidaka village. It was the fourth all-new station opened by JR Shikoku since its 1987 founding, and the first added after JR Shikoku's 2006 introduction of station numbers; because the neighbouring K08 and K09 codes were already in use at Hakawa and Kusaka, the new station received the unusual sub-numbered code K08-1.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because JR Shikoku had already assigned every consecutive number on the Dosan Line two years earlier, the new station could not slot cleanly into the sequence and instead received the sub-numbered code "K08-1", a JR Shikoku first.