Mitani (Yamaguchi)

Weekday departures: 22/day · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:02 / 22:03

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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 Yamaguchi Line: Nagusa ⇄ Watarigawa

Mitani Station is a JR West Yamaguchi Line stop in Atō Ikumo-higashibun, Yamaguchi, where some Super Oki limited express trains call. It opened on 28 April 1918 as the terminus when the Railway Bureau extended the Yamaguchi Line from Shinome, and became an intermediate station on 3 November 1918 when the line was extended further to Tokusa. Freight handling ended on 10 August 1971, parcel handling and station staff were withdrawn on 1 February 1984, and JR West took over on 1 April 1987 with the JNR privatization. The original station building was destroyed on 16 May 2001 in a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical short, and JR West refused to rebuild it as unprofitable, so the former Atō Town installed a prefab building at local expense in late July 2001; a new permanent station building followed in 2010. The station became fully unstaffed on 20 May 2021 when its simple commissioned-agency operation was dropped.

When fire destroyed the original station building in May 2001, JR West refused to rebuild it on profitability grounds, so the now-merged Atō Town stepped in and put up a prefabricated replacement at local expense within months — a permanent station building was only built nine years later, in 2010, and the CTC-linked train-approach warning device was sited outside the station building both before and after the rebuild.