Mega (Hyogo)

Weekday departures: 11/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 47/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 7:09 / 24:38 (00:38 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 21:00–22:00 (4)

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:

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: Shikama ⇄ Shirahamanomiya

Mega Station opened on 19 August 1923 with the inauguration of the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway, on what is now the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line in the Shikama ward of Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture. The operator was absorbed by Ujigawa Electric in 1927, and the railway division was spun off as the Sanyo Electric Railway in 1933. Freight services ran from 1929 until they were discontinued in December 1934. The station became an express stop on 15 April 1949, but lost express service in March 1984 and was served only by local trains until S-Express service was introduced in 1991. The station building was rebuilt in 1983, and the ticket window is today unstaffed.

The place name "Mega" (妻鹿) is said to come from a pair of deer who once lived nearby - the buck swam to the offshore Ieshima islands, leaving the doe behind - and a sister island there is still called Tangashima ("buck island"), though local records from 1289 actually use a different spelling.