History
Fukube Station opened on 10 October 1910 as Shiomi Station on the Railway Bureau's San'in Main Line between Iwami and Tottori, with passenger and freight handling from the outset. The station was renamed Fukube on 1 March 1949. Freight handling was abolished on 23 September 1961, and parcel operations ended on 10 February 1972, when the station became unstaffed under simplified outsourced management. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, operation passed to West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Around March 1993 a boarding certificate machine was installed. The station sits 219.1 km from Kyoto along the San'in Main Line, today an unstaffed stop with an island platform serving two tracks in the city of Tottori.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 11.2 km gap between Fukube and neighbouring Tottori Station is the longest interstation distance on the San'in Main Line.