Shin-Kurashiki

History

Shin-Kurashiki Station opened on 14 July 1891 as Tamashima Station of the Sanyo Railway between Kurashiki and Kasaoka. The Sanyo Railway was nationalised in 1906 and the station joined the Sanyo Main Line at the 1909 line-naming reform. On 10 March 1975 it was rebuilt with an overpass-style station building and renamed Shin-Kurashiki to mark the opening of the Sanyō Shinkansen between Okayama and Hakata; an alternative plan to put the Shinkansen station at Kurashiki or Nishi-Achi was rejected on cost and patronage grounds. The station passed to JR West at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. ICOCA service began in September 2007, and conventional-line station numbering JR-W07 was introduced in September 2020.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Although built as a Shinkansen station with both Hikari and Kodama stops, Hikari service was withdrawn on 29 November 1997 and only restored in March 2008.