History
Minami-Kōfu Station opened on 30 March 1928 as Kōfu-Minamiguchi Station of the Fuji-Minobu Railway, when the Ichikawa-Daimon to Kōfu segment of the Minobu Line was inaugurated. The line was leased to the Railway Ministry on 1 October 1938, at which point the station was renamed Minami-Kōfu, and the company was nationalised on 1 May 1941. Freight handling ended on 1 November 1986, and on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The last freight working ceased in October 1997 and JR Freight withdrew on 31 March 2001. IC card use through TOICA began on 1 October 2025. The station is the operational hub for stations from Ichikawa-Daimon to Kanate, and houses the Minobu Line's rolling-stock depot.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1928 reinforced-concrete station building, originally designed to house the Fuji-Minobu Railway's head office, still stands and is one of the oldest active station buildings on the Minobu Line.