Kokawa

Known weekday departures: 50/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 50/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:25 / 23:00

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (4)

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).

• JR Wakayama Line: Nate ⇄ Kii-Nagata

Kokawa Station opened on 25 November 1900 in what is now Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, when the Kiwa Railway extended its line to Hashimoto and completed a through connection to Gojō. The station's predecessor, a temporary stop, had operated since 24 August 1900 during the line's incremental extension. Local opposition over road realignments and school proximity had delayed siting by 67 days of negotiation. The line was sold to the Kansai Railway on 27 August 1904 and nationalised on 1 October 1907, becoming part of the Wakayama Line under the 1909 line-naming reforms. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1982, JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation passed the station to JR West, ICOCA arrived on 14 March 2020, and full destaffing followed on 1 June 2023.

Kokawa appears in the 49th verse of the 1900 Tetsudō Shōka (Railway Song) Volume 5, written by Ōwada Takeki — at the time of composition the line to Hashimoto was still incomplete, so the lyrics jump abruptly from Hashimoto to Kokawa.