Ogotoonsen

Weekday departures: 121/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 121/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:37 / 24:06 (00:06 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (9)

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 incomplete:

• JR Kosei Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• JR Kosei Line: Katata ⇄ Hieizan-Sakamoto

Ogoto-onsen Station opened on 20 July 1974 as Ogoto Station when the Kosei Line was inaugurated by Japanese National Railways in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture. The station passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. After local hot-spring inn operators sought to soften the area's adult-entertainment reputation, the city of Ōtsu funded a renaming campaign supported by a 32,000-signature petition, and the station was rechristened Ogoto-onsen on 15 March 2008. ICOCA contactless ticketing began on 1 November 2003, station numbering (JR-B26) followed in March 2018, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket window closed on 31 January 2020.

The 2008 renaming, backed by a 32,000-signature petition, was part of a deliberate rebranding by the local hot-spring district to shift the area's image; by 2010 the surrounding Ogoto-onsen resort had recorded its highest overnight-guest count since records began in 1989.