Owase

Weekday departures: 32/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 32/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:46 / 23:04

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (3)

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:

• Kisei Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Kisei Line: Aiga ⇄ Osoneura

Owase Station opened on 19 December 1934 as the terminus of the Japanese Government Railways Kisei East Line, with the station name then read "Owashi". For about two decades it remained the line's end-of-rail, until the route was extended south to Kuki on 12 January 1957. On 15 July 1959 the line was unified as the Kisei Main Line and the reading of the station name was officially changed to "Owase". Freight handling ended on 1 February 1984 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985, and JR Central took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Smoke from the signal equipment room on 7 August 2008 put part of the signalling out of use, so trains could no longer wait at Owase to be overtaken, although opposing trains could still cross; from 14 August the timetable moved those limited-express overtaking waits to other stations.

Owase's wooden station building dates from 1934 — extensively renovated, but the same structure that opened the line — and the platform numbered "3" survives only as fenced-off ground where the tracks have been lifted for car parking.