Asa

Asa – Nagatoshi: suspended from 1 July 2023 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Mine Line →

Weekday departures: 117/day · Sat & holiday departures: 117/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:38 / 23:19

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (13)

0:00 ─ 23:00

These are typical departures in the timetable data (see the date below), not a live count: they may include services affected by the notice above.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 2 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• San'yo Shinkansen: Shin-Yamaguchi ⇄ Shin-Shimonoseki
• JR Sanyo Main Line: Habu ⇄ Onoda
• Mine Line: Atsu ⇄ Yunoto

Asa Station opened on 3 December 1900 as the terminus of the Sanyo Railway's extension from Mitajiri (present-day Hōfu), beginning passenger and freight handling. It became a through-station with the extension to Bakan (present-day Shimonoseki) Station on 27 May 1901. A branch line to Ōmine Station (present-day Mine Line) opened on 13 September 1905, and the station came under the Sanyo Main Line following the Sanyo Railway's nationalization in 1906 and the 1909 line-name designation. Freight handling ended on 21 January 1984, after which the station became a stop on the Sanyo Shinkansen on 13 March 1999, making it the newest station on the Sanyo Shinkansen. It became a station of JR West and JR Freight at the 1987 division and privatization of Japanese National Railways.

Among San'yō Shinkansen stations, Asa is the only one that has never seen a regularly scheduled service other than Kodama call there since its 1999 opening; in fiscal 2014 a few seasonal Hikari and Sakura trains did stop.