History
Kojima Station opened on 20 March 1988 in present-day Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, when the new Honshi-Bisan Line began operating between Chayamachi and Kojima ahead of the 10 April 1988 opening of the Great Seto Bridge. As the last station in Honshu before the bridge crosses to Shikoku, it serves as the boundary station between JR West and JR Shikoku, with the company demarcation near the Utazu-end signal. JR West owns and operates the facilities while JR Shikoku maintains a crew room on platforms 3-4. Two elevated island platforms serve four numbered tracks. ICOCA was accepted from 1 September 2007. In 2015 the station gained the nickname "Jeans Station" celebrating Kojima as the birthplace of Japanese-made jeans.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
JR Shikoku does not assign a station number to Kojima even though it numbers every other station on its network — a discreet acknowledgement that the building and tracks belong to JR West.