Higashi-Hiroshima

Weekday departures: 43/day · Sat & holiday departures: 43/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:59 / 23:31

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 17 April 2026.

• San'yo Shinkansen: Mihara ⇄ Hiroshima (JR West)

Higashi-Hiroshima Station opened on 13 March 1988 as a stop on the Sanyō Shinkansen, in the Minaga district of Higashihiroshima, away from the city's main built-up centre around Saijō Station on the Sanyō Main Line. Construction broke ground on 8 February 1986; like Shin-Onomichi, the new station was funded entirely by local contributions of about ¥4.7 billion as a request stop. It was reduced to a Kodama-only stop in November 1997, with some Hikari stops reinstated from March 2008. Automated faregates arrived in 2005; the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed in June 2023.

The station building is designed in the style of a traditional Japanese sake brewery (kura).