Ono (Shiga)

Weekday departures: 103/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 103/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:32 / 24:12 (00:12 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (8)

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: Wani ⇄ Katata

Ono Station opened on 4 December 1988 at Kosei 1-chōme, Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, between Wani and Katata on the JR West Kosei Line. It was a petition station, paid for in full by Keihan Electric Railway as the rail access for the Biwako Rose Town residential development (a similar arrangement to Matsuiyamate Station on the Katamachi Line). It was the first entirely new station to open within the area JR West markets as the Urban Network after the company's formation, and is the only infill station added since the Kosei Line opened in 1974. The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket window opened on 1 November 1992, automatic ticket gates entered service on 1 October 1998, ICOCA support was added on 1 November 2003, and a major fittings upgrade — adding an elevator, electronic display board, and waiting room — was completed alongside the 15 March 2008 timetable revision. From the 26 March 2016 timetable revision, the slow-line through-trains were withdrawn from the station. Station numbering was introduced on 17 March 2018 (JR-B24). The Midori-no-Madoguchi window closed on 29 July 2022.

The station name "Ono" predates the historical figure Ono no Imoko, who is said to have come from a powerful local family of this area. Onsite features echo the connection: the station building and forecourt lighting use a boat-motif design, and Ono-Imoko-jinja (at the Karausu-yama Kofun) and Ono Imoko Park are among the Imoko-related sites near the station.