Kotoshiba

Weekday departures: 40/day · Sat & holiday departures: 40/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:24 / 22:53

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

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

• JR Ube Line: Ube-Shinkawa ⇄ Higashi-Shinkawa

Kotoshiba Station opened on 29 November 1929 on what was then a private line in the city of Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The line was nationalised in 1943 as the Ube Tōsen and was renamed the Ube Line on 1 February 1948. JR West succeeded JNR on 1 April 1987. The wooden station building was demolished in 2020 and replaced by a small prefabricated waiting room. The station consists of a single ground-level side platform serving a bi-directional track and is now unattended, sitting 26.0 km from the Shin-Yamaguchi terminus of the Ube Line.

Despite the building's modest scale today, the station sits closer to Ube City Hall than Ube-Shinkawa, the nominal central station of the city, does.