Hirano (Hyogo · Nose Electric Railway)

Weekday departures: 7/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 18:31 / 20:31

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 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:

• Noseden Myoken Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Noseden Myoken Line: Uneno ⇄ Kawanishi-Noseguchi

Hirano Station opened on 13 April 1913 on the Nose Electric Railway, in Hirano 1-chōme, Kawanishi, Hyōgo. The station moved to its current site in January 1966. The Uguisunomori–Hirano section was double-tracked on 5 October 1969, and the Hirano–Ichi-no-Torii section on 1 April 1973. The current overhead station building was completed in March 1981. With the introduction of the "Nissei Express" limited-express in 1997 the station became a compulsory stop for all revenue trains, and even out-of-service and chartered trains passing through must briefly halt — a deliberate rule, as the earlier Nissei kyūkō service used to pass through. Timed connections between local and faster services, and the trains terminating at Hirano, were both withdrawn at the 17 December 2022 timetable revision.

Hirano is the birthplace of Mitsuya Cider, originally marketed as "Mitsuya Hirano Mineral Water". A former imperial-household plant near the station shipped the cider nationwide before withdrawing from the cider business in 1954 and later closing; the Mitsuya Memorial Hall on the plant site stayed open alongside an Asahi-Beer-affiliated Sunshine Hirano home-centre until the latter closed in March 2005, after which the memorial hall also ended public access.