History
Kōtachi Station opened on 28 April 1915 with the inauguration of the Geibi Railway, in present-day Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture. On 1 July 1937 the line was nationalised and the station passed to the Ministry of Railways' Geibi Line. Freight handling ended on 10 December 1971, parcel handling on 14 March 1985, and staff were withdrawn on 1 April 1986. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it became a JR West station. The current building, completed in June 1996 as part of the Information Center Kōgyōkan, sits west of the line and connects to a single island platform serving two tracks via a footbridge. The station became fully unstaffed on 1 January 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name comes from the former Kōtachi village across the Gōno (Eno) River; though railway promoters from Yoshida-machi and Kōtachi lobbied for the line, geography forced it through Oda village, so the two stations built in Oda were named after the villages whose campaigns they substituted for.