History
Kumayama Station first appeared as a signal station on 10 July 1917 between Wake and Mantomi on the Railway Bureau's San'yō Main Line. It was upgraded to a full station on 11 August 1930. Freight ended in October 1960 and parcel handling in February 1984. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. ICOCA service began in September 2007, the staffed ticket window closed in May 2019 (the station became unstaffed from 1 June 2019), and station number JR-S08 was introduced in September 2020. The relocated footbridge here was certified as modern industrial heritage in 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's footbridge originally stood at Seto Station from 1912 and was relocated to Kumayama in 1960, earning a modern industrial heritage citation from METI in 2009.