History
Kuga Station opened on 1 December 1934 in central Kuga, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on what was then a new section of the San'yō Main Line between Iwakuni (today Nishi-Iwakuni) and Takamizu. The route was reassigned in October 1944 when the San'yō Main Line reverted to its Yanai routing, and the section became part of the Gantoku Line. Freight handling was withdrawn in 1974 and parcels in 1984. JR West took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. From June 1996 the station ran as a contracted operation under JR West Hiroshima Maintec, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter was added in 1997 and closed in March 2002, after which the station became a kani-itaku booking outlet.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kuga once had a side-plus-island composite three-track layout, later reduced to two tracks; subsequent rationalisations stripped passing facilities entirely and the station now serves a single track from one platform.