Banshu-Ako

Weekday departures: 45/day · Sat & holiday departures: 45/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:33 / 22:36

Busiest hour: 17:00–18:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Ako Line: Sakoshi ⇄ Tenwa

Banshū-Akō Station opened on 12 December 1951 as the temporary terminus of the JNR Akō Line. The line was extended west to Hinase in March 1955 and joined up with the line from Higashi-Okayama in September 1962. JR West inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation. A new bridge-style station building opened on 12 December 2000, eleven days after "Platt Akō", a multi-tenant commercial annex that opened on 1 December 2000 as part of the same wider redevelopment of the station area. ICOCA acceptance was extended from JR Kobe Line stations to here in November 2003 and onward to Okayama in September 2018. The current building is listed among the 100 selected stations of the Kinki region.

The prefix Banshū — an old-style nickname for Harima Province — was added in 1951 to distinguish the station from the Akaho stop on the Iida Line (now Komagane), which used the same kanji read differently. It remains the only JNR/JR station to use a -shū form rather than the formal old province name.