Kōnan (Shimane)

Weekday departures: 24/day · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:02 / 23:08

Busiest hour: 20:00–21:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• San'in Main Line: Izumo-Jinzai ⇄ Oda (Shimane)

Kōnan Station opened on 21 November 1913 when the Railway Bureau (Tetsudōin) extended the San'in Main Line from Izumo-Imaichi (now Izumoshi) to Oda, at Sanbu, Koryō-chō, Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, handling both passengers and freight. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962, the station became a contracted-operation station on 20 June 1977, parcel handling ended and the station became a simple-contract station on 14 March 1985, and on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation. The simple-contract arrangement was dissolved on 29 March 2019, the station became fully unstaffed the following day, the original building was demolished in November 2021, and a ceremony for the completed new station building was held in February 2023.

Although Kōnan is a stop on a primary trunk line, through-trains pass it at speed thanks to a one-line-through layout (with both directions routed on platform 1) and favourable approach geometry; for operational reasons the platform-numbering used in passenger announcements is reversed from the dispatcher's track-numbering, with passenger "platform 2" being internally "track 1".