Hōgi Station
railway station in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Hōgi Station (宝木駅, Hōgi-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Hōgi Station is served by the San'in Main Line, and is located 244.7 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kyoto.
Station layout
The station consists of one ground-level island platform and one ground-level side platform connected by a footbridge to the station building. The station is unattended.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
History
Hōgi Station opened on April 28, 1907. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 123 passengers daily.
“Hōgi Station” enters the record as railway station in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hōgi, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q899305. Authority coordinates are 35.514, 134.082. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1987 and 2020.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hōgi Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.