Otaba

Weekday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:21 / 22:27

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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 Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Tomura ⇄ Wakasa-Arita

Ōtoba Station opened on 10 November 1918 with the official railway's Tomura - Obama extension on what later became the Obama Line, in the town of Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 1 March 1961, and on 15 March 1973 the station was unstaffed, the parcel service ended and the passing loop was removed. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the station joined JR West. A new station building, shared with the Wakasa Agricultural Cooperative (JA Wakasa), was completed in March 1988; the agency arrangement is scheduled to end on 1 April 2026, after which the station becomes fully unstaffed.

The 1988 station building was constructed jointly with the local agricultural cooperative JA Wakasa, sharing the same structure with the cooperative's Toba branch office until that office closed in 2022.