Station

Shiwachi

志和地

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Shiwachi
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 27/day · Sat & holiday departures: 27/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:40 / 22:58

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)


Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Shiwachi Station opened on 28 April 1915 as the terminus of the Geibi Railway, in what is now Shimo-Shiwachi-chō in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture. On 1 June 1915 the line was extended from Shiwachi to Miyoshi Station (today Nishi-Miyoshi), making Shiwachi an intermediate stop. The Geibi Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1937, integrating the station into the state-run Geibi Line, and parcel handling and direct staffing ended on 8 March 1983, when the station shifted to simplified-commission ticketing. JNR's 1987 break-up brought the station under JR West, the commission arrangement was lifted in 2009, and the station was suspended on 6 July 2018 after heavy-rain damage; provisional service between Miyoshi and Naka-Mita was restored on 4 April 2019.

Notes

Three other stations on the Geibi Line have names that sound much like Shiwachi — Shimowachi, Shiomachi and Shiwaguchi — and are easily confused with it.

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