Kotohira

Weekday departures: 65/day · Sat & holiday departures: 65/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:05 / 22:34

Busiest hour: 16:00–17:00 (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.

• Dosan Line: Zentsuji ⇄ Shioiri (Kagawa)

Kotohira Station opened on 23 May 1889 as a station on the Sanuki Railway. It passed to the Sanyo Railway in 1904, and became a state-run railway station upon nationalization in 1906. In November 1922 it was relocated to its present site for an extension toward Awa-Ikeda, and its location changed from Kotohira town to Enai village (merged back into Kotohira town in 1955). The present station building was completed in 1936, and the station passed to JR Shikoku at the 1 April 1987 division and privatization of Japanese National Railways. It is a ground-level station with two platforms serving four tracks and a wooden station building, located in Enai, Kotohira, Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture; as the nearest station to Konpira-san (Kotohira-gū Shrine), all scheduled trains, including limited expresses, stop there.

The Western-style wooden station building, completed in 1936, was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2012, and was also certified as a 'Heritage of Industrial Modernization' by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2009.