History
Kutani Station opened on 1 March 1912 as part of the Railway Agency's extension of the San'in Main Line between Kasumi and Hamasaka, in what is now the town of Shin'onsen in Mikata District, Hyōgo Prefecture. Freight handling was discontinued on 1 March 1963 and parcel service ended on 15 December 1970, when the station also became unstaffed. The current station building dates from 1982. The line passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. Following the rebuilding of the nearby Amarube Viaduct, the second platform was closed in March 2008, leaving the station with a single side platform serving a bi-directional track at 191.8 kilometres from Kyoto.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A 1976 accident at the station saw an assistant station master from Kasumi struck and killed by a train while clearing snow from points; the incident is recorded on the station's timeline in the Japanese Wikipedia entry.