Konan (Shiga)

Weekday departures: 52/day · Sat & holiday departures: 52/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:58 / 23:35

Busiest hour: 19:00–20:00 (6)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kusatsu Line: Kibukawa ⇄ Terasho

Kōnan Station opened on 19 February 1890 as Fukawa Station on the Kansai Railway when the Tsuge–Mikumo segment of the present Kusatsu Line was extended. It was nationalised on 1 October 1907 as part of the Imperial Railway Agency network, and the line-naming reform of 12 October 1909 assigned it to the Kusatsu Line. In May 1955 the then-Kōnan town petitioned Japanese National Railways to rename the station, and the change to Kōnan Station took effect on 10 April 1956. Freight operations ended on 1 October 1962 and baggage handling on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR West with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, ICOCA reader-only IC support began on 17 March 2018, and the ground-level station building was replaced by a steel two-storey overhead structure on 11 May 2019 that added a barrier-free north entrance.

Before the opening of Kibukawa Station, Kōnan was the main terminal for the Kōnan and Minakuchi districts. From 1928 a 17-km Shigaraki aerial ropeway ran from Nagano-Kitade to the former Fukawa Station to transport Shigaraki ware, but falling-load accidents forced it to close about two years later.