Hira (Shiga)

Weekday departures: 103/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 103/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:20 / 24:23 (00:23 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (8)

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 Kosei Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• JR Kosei Line: Omi-Maiko ⇄ Shiga

Hira Station opened on 20 July 1974 as an unstaffed, passenger-only stop on the newly built Kosei Line of the Japanese National Railways, in what is now Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture. The station became part of JR West on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. ICOCA service began on 1 November 2003. Through services worked by slow-line (kankō) commuter trains ended with the timetable revision of 26 March 2016. Station numbering JR-B20 was introduced on 17 March 2018, and a lift and barrier-free toilet entered service on 16 March 2023.

An October 2017 strike from Typhoon Lan toppled nine catenary poles immediately next to the station, shutting the Kosei Line through Hira for three days.