Kobayashi (Miyazaki)

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:05 / 22:38

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kitto Line: Nishi Kobayashi ⇄ Hirowara

Kobayashi Station opened on 1 October 1912 (Taishō 1) as Kobayashimachi Station. On 22 April 1913 (Taishō 2) the Fukukawa Lumber Company received a licence to build a 3.04-mile narrow-gauge industrial siding to its mill. The station was renamed Kobayashi on 1 March 1951 (Shōwa 26), and with the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 (Shōwa 62) it passed to JR Kyūshū. A new station building and a north-south free passage opened on 15 March 2015 (Heisei 27). On 1 October 2023 (Reiwa 5) the outsourcing to JR Kyūshū Service Support ended and the station became a direct JR Kyūshū-managed station. Kobayashi is the main station of Kobayashi City and the only intermediate staffed station on the Kitto Line.

Because JR East has a Kobayashi Station with the same name, tickets to this station are printed with the prefix "(吉)小林" — the 吉 abbreviating the Kitto Line. From fiscal 2014 onward the station precinct was redeveloped, and after the new south-side building opened in 2015 the old wooden building on the north was demolished; its site became "KITTO Kobayashi," a municipal community and tourism exchange centre that opened on 31 July 2017 (Heisei 29). On 1 August 2017 Miyazaki Kōtsū moved its in-city bus hub here from the former Kobayashi Bus Centre. Dump Matsumoto also served as one-day stationmaster here on her pre-retirement tour, and a photo from that day appeared on an orange card issued by JR Kyūshū's Kagoshima Branch.