Egira

Weekday departures: 95/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 95/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:40 / 23:30

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Meitetsu Takehana Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Meitetsu Hashima Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Meitetsu Hashima Line: Shin Hashima
• Meitetsu Takehana Line: Hashima-Shiyakusho-Mae

Egira Station opened on 1 April 1929 as an intermediate stop on the Takehana Railway between Takehana and Ōsu, in what is today the city of Hashima, Gifu Prefecture. The Takehana Railway merged into Meitetsu on 1 March 1943, and Egira along with ten other Takehana Line stops was suspended in 1944 under wartime consolidation. Of those eleven, nine were formally abolished in 1969, but Egira survived because the Hashima Line — built to connect with the new Tōkaidō Shinkansen at Gifu-Hashima — was planned to branch from this site. The station reopened on 11 December 1982 as a junction between the Takehana and Hashima lines. After the 1 October 2001 closure of the Takehana Line section beyond Egira, it became a through-stop with all trains halting.

Egira survived as a suspended station for 38 years — far longer than any other Meitetsu stop except Higashi-Ōte on the Seto Line — solely because the Hashima Line connecting to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen was planned to branch from this site.