Imbe

Weekday departures: 46/day · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:11 / 23:50

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (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 Ako Line: Nishi-Katakami ⇄ Kagato

Imbe Station opened on 25 March 1958 on the Japanese National Railways' Akō Line, in the Imbe neighbourhood of what is now Bizen, Okayama Prefecture. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it came under JR West, the operator that runs the stop today as an unstaffed station 34.5 rail-kilometers from Aioi and 24.0 km from Banshū-Akō. The station has two ground-level opposed side platforms linked by a footbridge; the station building sits beside Platform 1, with two crew accommodation blocks next to it. The north exit opens onto the ground floor of the Bizen Ware Museum of Traditional Crafts, integrating the station with the surrounding pottery-craft district.

The station’s north exit is built directly into the ground floor of the Bizen Ware Museum of Traditional Crafts, framing the platform area as the gateway to Bizen pottery for arriving visitors.