Higashi-Tsuyama

Weekday departures: 40/day · Sat & holiday departures: 40/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:58 / 22:17

Busiest hour: 19:00–20:00 (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.

• Inbi Line: Takano
• Kishin Line: Tsuyama ⇄ Mimasaka-Osaki

Higashi-Tsuyama Station opened on 15 March 1928 with the inauguration of the Government Railways' Inbi-Minami Line between Mimasaka-Kamo, the station and Tsuyama, in present-day Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture. On 1 July 1932 the Inbi-Minami Line became part of the Inbi Line. On 28 November 1934 the Himetsu-Nishi Line opened from the station to Mimasaka-Emi, making Higashi-Tsuyama a transfer station. With the full opening of the Himeji – Higashi-Tsuyama section on 8 April 1936, the Himetsu-Nishi Line merged into the Himetsu Line. On 10 October 1936 the line nomenclature was revised: the Himetsu Line was renamed Kishin Line and absorbed the Higashi-Tsuyama – Tsuyama section of the Inbi Line, which therefore now terminates at Higashi-Tsuyama. Freight was discontinued on 25 December 1983 and parcels on 14 March 1985. At the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station was transferred to JR West. On 29 November 1997 the Sakyū express was abolished and the station went from an express stop to one that rapid services pass through. From 1 May 2000 the directly-staffed station was destaffed (the Tsuyama Railway Department Higashi-Tsuyama Branch was abolished). Higashi-Tsuyama is the terminus of the Inbi Line, but operationally all trains continue to Tsuyama.

Higashi-Tsuyama and the adjacent Tsuyama Station had a friendly rivalry in the express-train era: a banner reading 'Welcome to the east town' (ようこそ東の町へ) was hung from a building north of the station, visible from the platforms. The station still contains rather old equipment, including supports manufactured in 1942 that remain in use.