Station

Musa (Shiga)

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Musa (Shiga)
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Musa Station (Ohmi Railway station number OR20) opened on 29 December 1913 as a station on the Konan Railway in Chōkōji-chō, Ōmihachiman, Shiga. It passed to the Biwako Tetsudō Kisen Company on 15 May 1927, to the Yōkaichi Railway on 1 April 1929, and to Ohmi Railway on 1 March 1944. The dedicated siding to the Tōyō Carbon (now Tōkai Carbon) Shiga plant was closed on 1 February 1984, ending freight service. The station became a Rapid stop on 14 March 2020 (with timetable changes taking effect on weekday 16 March), and the sub-name "Mitsubishi Logisnext-mae" was added to the platform signs on 28 March 2024, with use in train PA and on in-car displays planned from 20 May.

Notes

Musa Station sits beside the old Nakasendō at the site of the Musa-juku post town; the area west of the station, in Nishijuku-chō, is the birthplace of Iba Teigo, marked by a sign beside a giant camphor tree, with a small park called 'Iba Eco Hiroba' on the site of his house.

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