Hōrai Station - Otsu

It is an ordinary local JR station.

It only stops normally Great for sightseeing in Lake Biwa

If you want to climb Mt. Horai, you can go to the trailhead from this station. From the station, you can see the panoramic view of Mt. Horai.

It's a very quiet countryside station that stops only ordinary trains and has almost no passengers. There is no residential area nearby, and the countryside is widespread. Facing the national highway, even if there are shops and restaurants in the vicinity, it cannot flourish, and there are not many tourists who stop by to close the store. You can go to the lake shore in a few minutes on foot, and because the water is clean, there are no facilities, but you can also swim. Since there are few people, you can often see fish. Maiko Omi is crowded in summer, so it's a good idea to come to Horai Station by train!

Toilets ? (separate for men and women) were just outside the ticket gate

This station also has a good view of Lake Biwa. If you come to Hachisho Shrine, Minamahama Swimming Pool, Minato Marina, Fukuta Clinic, BSC Water Sports Center, Antarctica, please get off at this station. Near the station is a residential area.

Horai Station is a station on the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Kosei Line, located at Hachiyado Oaza Road, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. The station number is JR-B22. history There was a station with the same name on the Ewaka Railway, which ran nearby until 1969, before the opening of the Kosei Line. For details, see Horai Station (Ewaka Railway). chronology July 20, 1974 (Showa 49) --Yamashina Station on the Kosei Line of the Japanese National Railways --Opened at the same time as the opening of the entire line between Omi-Shiotsu Station. April 1, 1987-Becomes a station of West Japan Railway Company (JR West) due to the privatization of JNR. [1] November 1, 2003-IC card "ICOCA" can be used. March 26, 2016 --With the revision of the timetable, the entry of slow-moving trains will be abolished. March 17, 2018-Station numbering has been introduced and started to be used. Notation of station name The font of "Homan" is as described at the beginning, but in the fare table and stop station table of stations other than this station, both the two characters of "Hohan" or only one character of "Ho" remain in the extended new font. It may have become, and it is not thoroughly enforced even within JR West. The same was true during the Ewaka Railway era, and in some cases, the font of "Homan" was expanded to a new font in tickets. Station structure It is an elevated station with two lines on two sides of a relative platform. Since it does not have a turnout or an absolute traffic light, it is classified as a bus stop. There is one ticket gate on the ground. A simple automatic ticket gate is installed, and a glue checkout machine is not installed. The toilet is outside the ticket gate. It is a business consignment station managed by Katata Station and entrusted with station operations by JR West Koutsu Service, but it will be unmanned after morning and evening. It is an ICOCA-enabled station (see the ICOCA section for interoperable IC cards), and an ICOCA simple deposit machine is installed inside the ticket gate. During the JNR era, it was an unmanned station all day long, and a boarding station certificate with a "contact slip" written on it was hung like a bell near the end of the landing where you climbed the first stairs in the station yard. I tore off one contact slip and bought a ticket from the conductor in the car. Diamond Three trains stop per hour during the daytime hours. Around the station Hachisho Shrine Otsu City Shiga Junior High School Horaihama Swimming Pool BSC Water Sports Center Shiga Prefectural Road 558 Takashima Otsu Line (former National Road 161) Bus route There used to be a bus stop called "Horai Ekimae" on the road next to the station, and the Keihan Bus connected Kyoto to Omi Imazu. It is now abolished, but as of 2021, the waiting area at that time remains as it is. Next station West Japan Railway Company B Kosei Line ■ Special Rapid Service ・ ■ Rapid Service Passing ■ Normal (Rapid train west of Takatsuki Station) Wani Station (JR-B23) --Horai Station (JR-B22) --Shiga Station (JR-B21)

It's super retro! The station is on the upper floor, so the view of Lake Biwa is the best! It seems that there are minimum facilities such as a rotary and a bicycle parking lot to pick you up. The old ones are old, but they seem to be kept clean.