Horai

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): 5:26 / 24:17 (00:17 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (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: Shiga ⇄ Wani

Hōrai Station opened on 20 July 1974, together with the opening of the Japanese National Railways' Kosei Line, as an unstaffed, passenger-only station in Ōaza Dōkaitō, Hachiyado, Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture. It became a station of West Japan Railway Company (JR West) at the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, and the IC card "ICOCA" became usable there on 1 November 2003. Station numbering was introduced on 17 March 2018, assigning it JR-B22; its ticket office closed on 31 August 2025, and it became unstaffed all day from 1 September. It is an elevated station with two side platforms serving two tracks, operated as a halt without switches or absolute signals.

The station name is written using an older character form of "Hōrai," but an extended-shinjitai (simplified) variant of the same characters also appears, mixed in, on fare tables and stopping-station lists outside the station, and complete standardization has not been achieved even within JR West.