Kunda

Weekday departures: 37/day · Sat & holiday departures: 37/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:43 / 23:01

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

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• Miyazu Line: Miyazu ⇄ Tango-Yura

Kunda Station opened on 12 April 1924 as an intermediate station on the Maizuru–Miyazu segment of the government-built Miyazu Line, then operated by the Ministry of Railways and later the Japanese National Railways. Freight handling ended in 1962 and parcel handling in 1984; the station was reduced to an unstaffed single-line stop in 1985. At the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, and on 1 April 1990 the Miyazu Line as a whole was transferred to the third-sector Kitakinki Tango Railway. From 1 April 2015 the line has been operated by WILLER Trains as the Kyoto Tango Railway Miyamai Line, where Kunda is station M13.

Kunda is widely known as a "hard-to-read" (難読) station: the kanji 栗田 are normally read "Kurita," but the railway has always rendered the place-name as "Kunda." Today the station is staffed only on weekday mornings and afternoons by a simple-委託 (entrusted) agent; outside those hours, and throughout weekends and holidays, no tickets can be purchased at the station.