Ibara

Weekday departures: 56/day · Sat & holiday departures: 56/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:16 / 23:09

Busiest hour: 17:00–18:00 (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.

• Ibara Line: Sounnosato-Ebara ⇄ Izue

Ibara Station, in the city of Ibara in Okayama Prefecture, opened on 11 January 1999 with the inauguration of the third-sector Ibara Railway's Ibara Line. The high-ceilinged glass station building was designed in the shape of the longbow of Nasu no Yoichi, a figure associated with Ibara. A staffed station and the line's largest hub, it shares its concourse with municipal facilities: a community hall on the east side hosts events and exhibitions while a denim retail store and museum opened in 2017, and a city tourist information office opened in 2018. The previous Igasa Railway Ibara station — 700 m to the north-northwest — closed with the abandonment of the Igasa Railway's rail lines, part of whose trackbed was later reused for the Ibara Line, and its site is now the Ibara Bus Centre.

The old Igasa Railway Ibara station stood 700 m north-northwest of the present station, and its Main Line and Kannabe Line trains reversed there in a switchback; when the Ibara Line was built on part of the old trackbed, the new station was sited on the straight east-west extension of the two former lines so trains could run through without reversing.