History
Shimomatsu opened on 1 April 1984 between Kumeda and Higashi-Kishiwada on the Japanese National Railways' Hanwa Line. The City of Kishiwada bore the full 700-million-yen construction cost, and the resulting petitioned station is the most recently opened on the entire Hanwa Line — no new station has been added there since. The 1987 break-up of JNR transferred operation to JR West. Automatic ticket gates went in on 4 June 1998 and ICOCA contactless ticketing followed on 1 November 2003. The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed on 28 July 2016, replaced the next day by a Midori-no-Kenbaiki Plus self-service machine. Station code JR-R39 was assigned on 17 March 2018, and the Plus machine itself was removed on 23 August 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
To distinguish this station from Kudamatsu on the San'yō Main Line in Yamaguchi Prefecture, tickets are stamped '(Han) Shimomatsu' and ICOCA logs show it as 'Shimomatsu' in katakana.