Inotani

Weekday departures: 25/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 25/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:16 / 22:14

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 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 complete: Takayama Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Takayama Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Takayama Line: Nirehara
• Takayama Line: Sugihara

Inotani Station opened on 27 November 1930 as a stop on the Ministry of Railways' Hietsu Line, which was absorbed into the Takayama Main Line when that route was completed. From 1931 the Kamioka Tramway connected here, handling tens of thousands of tonnes of zinc and sulphuric acid traffic each year for the Kamioka mine; the tramway closed in 1967 after the JNR's Kamioka Line opened in 1966. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987, becoming the boundary station between JR West and JR Central on the Takayama Main Line. The Kamioka Line, by then operated by third-sector Kamioka Railway, closed on 1 December 2006.

Inotani is one of only two stations on Japan's conventional-line network where two JR passenger companies meet at an unstaffed station — the other is Nakaoguni — and crew changeovers between JR West and JR Central still take place on the platform at every Hida limited-express service.