Hesaka

Weekday departures: 83/day · Sat & holiday departures: 83/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:38 / 23:48

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (6)

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 Geibi Line: Aki-Yaguchi ⇄ Yaga (Hiroshima)

Hesaka Station is a JR West stop on the Geibi Line in Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, station number JR-P03. It opened on 15 April 1916 as a halt on the Geibi Railway, after local volunteers led by the Hesaka village head donated 100 tsubo of land and 600 yen toward construction costs to persuade the railway to add a station within the village. The Geibi Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1937. The station became unstaffed on 20 December 1971 and was incorporated into JNR's 'within Hiroshima City' fare district in September 1972. A simple new building replaced the original in March 1978, and the station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987.

Hesaka exists only because local villagers raised the money for it: the fare when it opened was 16 sen between Higashi-Hiroshima and Hesaka — an expensive ride at the time — yet Hesaka now ranks behind only Aki-Yaguchi for passenger volume among the Geibi Line's intermediate stations.