History
Igumi Station opened on 10 November 1911 in what is now Shin’onsen, Mikata District, Hyōgo, on the San’in Main Line, when the Ministry of Railways extended the line from Hamasaka to Iwami. The station is 204.2 kilometres from the line’s terminus at Kyoto. Freight service ended on 1 April 1971 and the station became fully unattended on 4 April 1983. Operation passed to West Japan Railway Company (JR West) at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The original side-and-island layout was simplified during the 2000s and reduced to a single side platform; the absolute signals and footbridge were removed in 2013, and a new minimalist station building opened in 2019, replacing the demolished older structure. The stop is staffed solely through Toyooka Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Igumi village faces the Sea of Japan, the station sits roughly 800 metres inland on the mountain side with almost no houses around it, and is sometimes listed among Japan’s “hikyō-eki” (secret/secluded stations).