Higashi-Obama

Weekday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:04 / 22:45

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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 incomplete:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Obama ⇄ Shin-Hirano

Higashi-Obama Station opened on 14 August 1953 between Shin-Hirano and Obama as a passenger-only stop on the Obama Line. Local residents had originally requested the station be named after the surrounding district of Onyū, but the kanji were judged difficult to read and the current name was adopted instead. Staffed-ticket duties were withdrawn in 1973 and the station became JR West property at privatisation on 1 April 1987. In 2001 the station was rebuilt as a joint structure shared with the Obama Municipal General Welfare Centre. In March 2019 the Fukui Prefectural Assembly set out a plan for a Hokuriku Shinkansen station immediately west of the existing facility, currently expected to open around 2046.

Higashi-Obama was selected for the fourth Chūbu Station 100 Selection in 2002.