Hoshiya

Weekday departures: 53/day · Sat & holiday departures: 53/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:46 / 23:37

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (5)

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 Wakayama Line: Kii-Ogura ⇄ Senda

Hoshiya Station opened on 3 May 1899 as a temporary stop on the Kiwa Railway between Funato and Tainose, and was upgraded to a full passenger station on 1 October the same year. The Kiwa Railway was sold to the Kansai Railway in 1904 and nationalised in 1907, placing the station on what became the Wakayama Line in 1909. Freight handling ended in 1968, and the station became unstaffed in 1971. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR West, and ICOCA support was added on 14 March 2020. The unattended stop sits in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, 79.9 kilometres from Ōji Station.

From 9 June 2020, only the waiting room of the old station building continued to be used, and the restroom was also removed around the same time. The old station building itself was demolished around August 2020.