Utsubo

Weekday departures: 16/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:31 / 21:43

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (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:

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

• Takayama Line: Sugihara ⇄ Sakakami

Utsubo Station opened on 12 November 1933 as a general-purpose Ministry of Railways station on the Hietsu Line (now the Takayama Main Line) when the Sakaue–Sugihara section opened, in present-day Hida, Gifu Prefecture. Freight handling ended in 1973, parcel handling in 1984, and the station was destaffed in 1985. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central. A simplified station building replaced the earlier structure in March 2003. In October 2004 flooding from Typhoon Tokage washed out the roadbed and left two KiHa 48 cars stranded at Utsubo; the cars were taken out to Takayama in February 2007, and the station reopened on 8 September 2007 when the whole Takayama Main Line was restored, after a suspension of about three years.

A snow-shelter shed covering the turnout at Utsubo — the only such installation on the entire Takayama Main Line — was repurposed in 2004 to protect the two KiHa 48 cars stranded at the station by Typhoon Tokage flooding.