History
Kita-Komatsu Station opened on 1974-07-20 together with the Kosei Line under Japanese National Railways, and was unstaffed and passengers-only from the outset. It passed to JR West with privatisation on 1987-04-01, and ICOCA was accepted from 2006-10-21. Rapid services began calling at the station with the 2011-03-12 timetable revision, and station numbering JR-B18 was introduced on 2018-03-17. The ticket window was closed on 2025-07-31, returning the station to fully unstaffed operation the following day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Two opposing elevated platforms rest above the station building, and an old railway-mode survivor, the Kōjak Railway, once ran parallel to the east; its trackbed is now being converted into a bypass of National Route 161.