Kanagawa (Okayama)

Weekday departures: 46/day · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:37 / 23:35

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Tsuyama Line: Takebe ⇄ Nonokuchi

Kanagawa Station opened on 21 December 1898 with the inauguration of the Chugoku Railway main line, the predecessor of the present Tsuyama Line. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1944, bringing the station under Japanese National Railways control as part of the Tsuyama Line. Freight handling ended in November 1971 and parcel handling in February 1984. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR West. The original wooden station building was replaced with a concrete structure on 1 February 2005, ahead of the Okayama National Athletic Meet, and shifted about 40 metres toward Okayama in the process. Ticket sales ended on 31 May 2021 and the station became fully unstaffed the following day.

Despite being a small unstaffed station, Kanagawa once dispatched an imperial special train: in April 1967, Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun boarded here for the Eighteenth National Tree-Planting Festival, bound for Chugoku-Katsuyama Station.