Timetable information
Weekday departures: 44/day · Sat & holiday departures: 44/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:50 / 23:16
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- San'in Main Line: Kajikuri-Godaichi ⇄ Hatabu
Location
History
Ayaragi opened on 22 April 1914 as a station on the Chōshū Railway, a privately operated local line in western Yamaguchi Prefecture serving what is now Shimonoseki. The route was nationalised on 1 June 1925, becoming part of the Railway Ministry's Kogushi Line, and was renamed the San'in Main Line on 24 February 1933. Parcel handling ended on 1 February 1984. The 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation gave the station to JR West, and it was made fully unstaffed on 1 October 2020. The layout is a single side platform serving one bi-directional track with no passing loop, so services towards both Shimonoseki and Kogushi use the same platform. The station is in the residential Kawanaka district, about 2.5 kilometres in a straight line from Shin-Shimonoseki.
Notes
No bus route directly serves the station; the nearest stop, 'Ayaragi Shisho-mae', is about 170 metres away in front of the Shimonoseki city Kawanaka branch office.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18