Hoshakuji

Weekday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:08 / 22:30

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (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:

• JR Karasuyama Line: no timetable data
• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tohoku Main Line: Ujiie ⇄ Okamoto (Tochigi)

Hōshakuji Station opened on 21 October 1899 as a Nippon Railway station, was nationalised in 1906, and was assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line in 1909. The Karasuyama Line branch was extended from here to Karasuyama on 15 April 1923. JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation transferred it to JR East and JR Freight, with Suica accepted from 16 October 2004 and freight train operations discontinued on 18 March 2006. The Kengo Kuma-designed elevated station building entered service on 28 October 2007 and won the Brunel Award commendation for architecture on 30 September 2008. Following the March 2025 unstaffing of Karasuyama, Hōshakuji is now the only attended station on the Karasuyama Line.

On 10 July 1945 a U.S. Navy F6F-5 carrier-borne fighter strafed alighting passengers at Hōshakuji, killing one of four wounded immediately and three more of five additional wounded by that evening.