History
Kibinomakibi Station opened on 11 January 1999 with the inauguration of the Ibara Line, a third-sector route operated by Ibara Railway between Sōja and Kannabe. Located 8.2 kilometres from the Sōja terminus in the Mabi district of Kurashiki, the unstaffed elevated halt has two side platforms with the station facilities underneath. The station is named after Kibi no Makibi, an 8th-century scholar and statesman whose hometown was nearby. During the July 2018 western-Japan torrential rains the station precincts were flooded along with much of the surrounding Mabi district.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Although the 8th-century statesman's name reads "Makibi," the surrounding placename has long been pronounced "Mabi" — the station deliberately uses the personal-name reading "Kibinomakibi" to honour the scholar rather than the locality.