Konkō

History

Konkō Station opened on 4 August 1901 as Konjin Station on the privately built Sanyo Railway, between Tamashima (now Shin-Kurashiki) and Kamogata. The present wooden station building, identifiable by a building-property marker on its right entrance, was completed in March 1902. The line was nationalised on 1 December 1906 and absorbed into the San'yō Main Line in 1909, and the station was renamed Konkō on 1 April 1919 after the nearby Konkōkyō religious headquarters. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West; ICOCA service began in 2007 and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter closed on 28 February 2022, when the station became unattended.

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

Notes

The footbridge on the Fukuyama side dates from 1915, was recognised in February 2009 as a Modernisation Industrial Heritage site, and the platform canopy reuses doublehead rails from the railway's earliest era.