Wakasa-Hongo

Weekday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:03 / 21:46

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:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Wakasa-Wada ⇄ Kato

Wakasa-Hongō Station opened on 3 April 1921 with the extension of the government-built Obama Line from Obama to Wakasa-Takahama. Freight handling was discontinued on 15 March 1973 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West at the JNR breakup. A new station building, salvaged and rebuilt from the "Windmill Station" pavilion of the 1990 International Garden and Greenery Exposition ("Hana Banpaku") in Osaka, opened on 17 July 1991, and the staffed ticket booth (Midori-no-Madoguchi) closed permanently on 10 March 2025. The station was selected on 14 October 1999 as one of the Top 100 Stations of the Chūbu Region (Chūbu no Eki Hyakusen).

The station building was originally the "Windmill Station" pavilion at the 1990 Osaka Flower Expo and is also known as the "Windmill Hall"; when it was moved here its wooden frame was rebuilt in steel. A replica of the "Dream Express Yoshitsune" steam-locomotive demonstration train that ran at the Expo is displayed at the nearby "Information Crossroads Portal" facing National Route 27. Wakasa-Hongō is also the only railway station within the town of Ōi.