History
Minami-Ōmine Station opened on 13 September 1905 as Isa Station (伊佐駅) on the San'yō Railway, in what is today the city of Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The San'yō Railway was nationalised in December 1906. On 15 September 1916 the Mine Light Railway joined the station as a joint-use stop; it was nationalised in 1920 and the lines subsequently consolidated. The station was renamed Minami-Ōmine on 1 January 1949. The 2.8-kilometre Ōmine branch line, for which the station had served as junction, closed on 1 April 1997. With the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation the station passed to JR West and now sits 16.9 kilometres from the line origin at Asa on the Mine Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was once the junction for a 2.8-kilometre branch to Ōmine itself, used to ship coal from the area's now-closed mines; when the branch line closed in 1997, the former branch-line side platform was filled in, leaving the station with a missing platform 1 and a re-numbered platform layout.