Ko (Tokushima)

Weekday departures: 57/day · Sat & holiday departures: 57/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:21 / 23:05

Busiest hour: 11:00–12:00 (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.

• Tokushima Line: Akui ⇄ Ishii (Tokushima)

Kō Station (B04) is a JR Shikoku Tokushima Line stop in Kokufu-chō Fuchū, Tokushima, and is read 'Kō' rather than 'Fuchū', making it one of Japan's well-known difficult-to-read station names. It opened on 16 February 1899. The station was directly run until 1 February 1983 when operations were contracted to Nikkō Kan, became unstaffed on 1 February 1985, returned to direct operation on 1 March 1988, and was again unstaffed from 1 September 2010. With the JNR privatization on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Shikoku. The original wooden station building from the line's opening was replaced by an aluminium-clad waiting-room-only structure in 2021; the formerly attached gender-shared pit toilet had been closed in 2019. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge, with track 1 a 100 km/h one-track-through main line carrying through limited expresses and (absent meets) all stopping trains in both directions.

Despite being written with the kanji 府中, the station's name is read 'Kō', which makes it one of Japan's well-known difficult-to-read station names. Although it is the central station for Kokufu-chō, the road in front of it is narrow and the surrounding houses are cluttered, so it has the feel of an ordinary residential-district stop; the 14th temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage, Jōraku-ji, stands nearby. The station has been completely unstaffed since 1 September 2010 and offers only a ticket machine, though on some days staff are still sent over from its managing station, Tokushima, during the commuting rush.