Kibinomakibi

Known weekday departures: 44/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 44/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:41 / 23:00

Busiest hour (known departures): 19:00–20:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Ibara Line: Kawabejuku ⇄ Bitchu-Kurese

Kibinomakibi Station opened on 11 January 1999 with the inauguration of the Ibara Line, a third-sector route operated by Ibara Railway between Sōja and Kannabe. Located 8.2 kilometres from the Sōja terminus in the Mabi district of Kurashiki, the unstaffed elevated station has two side platforms with the station facilities underneath. The station is named after Kibi no Makibi, an 8th-century scholar and statesman whose hometown was nearby. During the July 2018 torrential rains in western Japan the station precincts were flooded.

Although the 8th-century statesman's name reads "Makibi," the surrounding placename has long been pronounced "Mabi" — the station deliberately uses the personal-name reading "Kibinomakibi" to honour the scholar rather than the locality.