History
Kusae Station opened on 1 August 1923 as a halt on the Ube Railway when the line was extended from Tokonami to Ube-Shinkawa. The railway was nationalised in 1943, the stop was upgraded to a full station, and the line was renamed the Ube Line on 1 February 1948. The station was unstaffed and converted to simplified outsourced ticketing in 1971, and the building was rebuilt in a simple form in March 1978. JR West took over operation in 1987 at privatisation. After the local shop holding the ticket-sales contract closed in November 2011, the station has been fully unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In October 2017 the exterior walls of the small station shelter were decorated with murals of local plants and animals by the JR Ube Line promotion council.