Bingo-Ochiai Station

Bingo-Ochiai Station

備後落合駅
Bingo-Ochiai Station; 備後落合駅
	The front of the station building.
General information
Location	1778, Saijō-chō Hattori, Shōbara, Hiroshima; （広島県庄原市西城町八鳥1778）; Japan
Coordinates	35°00′04″N 133°08′54″E / 35.0012°N 133.1484°ECoordinates: 35°00′04″N 133°08′54″E / 35.0012°N 133.1484°E
Operated by	JR West
Line(s)	Geibi Line; Kisuki Line;
Connections	Bus stop;
History
Opened	1935

Bingo-Ochiai Station (備後落合駅, Bingo-Ochiai-eki) is a JR West Geibi and Kisuki Line station in Hattori, Saijō-chō, Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

History

1935-12-20: Opens as the terminus of the Shōbara Line between Bingo-Saijō and Bingo-Ochiai
1936-10-10: Upon completion of the line from Onuka Station, becomes an intermediary stop on the Sanshin Line between Bitchū Kōjiro and Miyoshi
1937-07-01: Becomes a station on the nationalized Geibi Line, which stretches from Hiroshima to Niimi
1937-12-12: Becomes a junction station between the Kisuki Line and the Geibi Line
1987-04-01: Japan National Railways is privatized, and Bingo-Ochiai becomes a JR West station

There is one station-side platform facing an island with two more platform faces.

Hiroshima Prefectural Route 234 (Bingo-Ochiai Teishajō Route) connects Bingo-Ochiai station to Japan National Route 314.

Route 314 connects to Japan National Route 183 on the way toward Saijō.

All lines are part of the JR West network.

The station platforms at Bingo Ochiai (2007-09-26)
A class 120-300 one-man-operated train at Bingo Ochiai headed for Niimi Station (2006-09-17)
A class 120-200 one-man-operated train at Bingo Ochiai (2006-09-17)
Okuizumo Orochi-gō 98 tourist train headed for Bingo Ochiai (2006-06-25)
Inside station building (2019-08-14)