Gōtsuhommachi Station

Gōtsuhommachi Station (江津本町駅, Gōtsu Honmachi-eki) was a railway station on the Sankō Line in Gōtsu, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Opened in 1958, the station closed on 31 March 2018 with the closure of the entire Sankō Line.

[1][2] Gōtsuhommachi Station was served by the 108.1 km Sankō Line from Gōtsu in Shimane Prefecture to Miyoshi in Hiroshima Prefecture, and lies 1.1 km from the starting point of the line at Gōtsu Station.

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

[3] On 16 October 2015, JR West announced that it was considering closing the Sanko Line due to poor patronage.