Hirafuku

Weekday departures: 32/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 32/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:32 / 21:58

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (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.

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:

• Chizu Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Chizu Line: Ishii (Hyogo) ⇄ Sayo

Hirafuku Station opened on 3 December 1994 with the opening of the Chizu Line, a third-sector semi-public railway operated by Chizu Express, located in Sayō Town in Hyōgo Prefecture. The station has two opposed ground-level side platforms allowing trains to pass each other. In August 2009 Typhoon Etau caused a major washout on the Chizu Line, and from 12 August the Super Hakuto limited expresses were forced to make emergency stops at Hirafuku — with only the first two cars opening their doors because of platform length — to substitute for service at flooded Sayō Station. Full operation resumed on 29 August 2009 once the line had been fully restored. Hirafuku is one of the 100 best stations of the Kinki region as selected in the fourth round of that award.

The station's waiting room is built in the style of a traditional manor residence, befitting the location at Hirafuku-juku, an old post town on the Inaba Kaidō highway.