Hokoku

Weekday departures: 30/day · Sat & holiday departures: 30/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:13 / 23:38

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Hakubi Line: Ikura ⇄ Bitchu-Kawamo

Hōkoku Station opened on 25 October 1928 with the Ministry of Railways' Hakubi Line extension from Bitchū-Kawamo to Adachi, though regular train operations through the new section did not begin until 25 November of that year. Goods handling ended on 1 October 1971, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and the station was made unattended on 31 March 1984. With JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. ICOCA support began on 13 March 2021. The wooden station building dates from the 1928 opening and is registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. The unattended station, station number JR-V15, lies in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, between a cliffside and the Takahashi River.

There is no place called Hōkoku near the station — the name honours Yamada Hōkoku, a Bitchū-Matsuyama Han retainer and scholar of the Chinese classics of the late Tokugawa period who was known as the "Sage of Bitchū." The Railway Ministry balked at a station named after a person as being without precedent, so local residents argued that Hōkoku could equally be read as a local place name — the valley of Nishigata — and on that footing the name was adopted.