Wakura-Onsen

Weekday departures: 39/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 39/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:50 / 22:12

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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 complete: Nanao Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Nanao Line: one direction only

• Nanao Line: Tatsuruhama ⇄ Nanao
• Nanao Line: Nanao

The station opened on 15 December 1925 as Wakura Station, the temporary terminus of the Ministry of Railways' Nanao Line extension from Nanao. It served the famous Wakura Onsen hot-spring resort on the Noto peninsula. Renamed Wakuraonsen on 1 July 1980, it received a new station building the same month. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. On 1 September 1991 the line was electrified as far as Wakuraonsen and the non-electrified section to Wajima was transferred to the third-sector Noto Railway, making the station a jointly-used boundary point. The 2024 Noto earthquake cracked the platforms and briefly suspended service.

Wakura-Onsen is JR West's northernmost station and the northernmost JR station in central Japan; the melody played as trains arrive is the local "Wakura Ondo".