History
Kumanoshi Station opened on 8 August 1940 as Kii-Kinomoto Station (紀伊木本駅), the terminus of the Kisei-Nishi Line extension from Shingū. The station served as the line's western terminus for more than fifteen years until the 1956 extension to Atashika. On 15 July 1959 the Kisei-Nishi and Kisei-Higashi lines were joined into a single Kisei Main Line between Kameyama and Wakayama, and the station was renamed Kumanoshi. Operation passed to Central Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. The current station building was completed in March 1990.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the official romanisation is 'Kumanoshi Station,' signs along National Route 42 render it 'Kumano City Station.'