History
Kawabejuku Station opened on 11 January 1999 as one of the original stops on the Ibara Line, a third-sector route built jointly by Okayama and Hiroshima prefectures and the city of Kurashiki to revive a long-abandoned national-railway plan. Located 6.0 km from the line's Soja terminus in the Mabi district of Kurashiki, the unstaffed elevated halt has a single side platform serving one bi-directional track, with the station's small facilities tucked beneath the viaduct. The surrounding flatland flooded badly during the July 2018 western-Japan torrential rains.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kawabejuku doubles as the terminus of the "Kosuke Kindaichi Path" — author Seishi Yokomizo evacuated to this area during the war and wrote the detective's debut novel here, so the platform sign and bridge piers carry silhouettes of the fictional sleuth.