Minami-Hikone

Weekday departures: 87/day · Sat & holiday departures: 87/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:07 / 24:37 (00:37 next day)

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Tokaido Main Line: Hikone ⇄ Kawase

Minami-Hikone Station opened on 30 June 1981 as a passengers-only stop on the Japanese National Railways' Tōkaidō Main Line between Hikone and Kawase. It passed to JR West with privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the Biwako Line nickname for this section began on 13 March 1988. Automated turnstiles were installed on 14 April 1998, ICOCA acceptance on 1 November 2003, and station numbering JR-A14 on 17 March 2018. The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed on 16 March 2019, replaced by a Midori Ticket-Machine Plus the following day.

Reserve land was set aside outside each platform for a future 2-platform/4-track expansion that never came; some of it was used in 2002 for the station's first elevators.