[1] Fukuyama Station is served by the San'yō Shinkansen and is 238.6 kilometers from Shin-Osaka and 791.5 km from Tokyo.

The San'yō Shinkansen has two elevated opposed side platforms on the outer edge, with two tracks in the middle for through trains on the third floor of the station building.

Station facilities are located on the second floor, and the conventional lines have a total of three island platforms serving six tracks on the ground level.

[2] With the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.

[3] The station was built next to the main courtyard of Fukuyama Castle.