History
Kusano Station opened on 27 March 1958 on the Japanese National Railways Fukuchiyama Line, between Aimoto and Furuichi, as a petition station whose construction costs were borne entirely by the locality. It came under JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the "JR Takarazuka Line" branding for the surrounding section was introduced the following year. Doubling of the track on 8 March 1997 expanded the layout from a single platform to two opposed side platforms. Automatic ticket gates entered service in January 1999, ICOCA on 1 November 2003, and station number JR-G66 on 17 March 2018. The station is on a 50.5 km stretch of line, unstaffed but managed by Fukuchiyama.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
To avoid confusion with the identically named Kusano Station on the Jōban Line in Fukushima, tickets issued from this station carry the prefix "(福) Kusano" in their printed station-name field.