Hatsushima

Weekday departures: 68/day · Sat & holiday departures: 68/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:41 / 24:00 (00:00 next day)

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (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.

• Kisei Line: Shimotsu ⇄ Minoshima

Hatsushima Station opened on 15 December 1938 as an unstaffed simple stop on the Kisei West Line in what is now Arida, Wakayama Prefecture. From 1942 it served a private siding for the Toa Nenryo (today ENEOS) refinery next door, and a staffed eight-person operation grew up around the freight traffic. A new station building completed in March 1944 was burnt out in a July 1945 air raid and replaced by a wooden building finished in March 1949. The line was unified as the Kisei Main Line in July 1959, freight ended in 1986, and JR West took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station was destaffed on 17 March 2018.

In March 2025, JR West replaced the 1949 wooden building with one assembled in six hours from four 3D-printed components — believed to be the first 3D-printed station building in the world, with city-flower mikan and scabbardfish motifs in its walls.