Kotoshiba

Weekday departures: 40/day · Sat & holiday departures: 40/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:24 / 22:53

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Ube Line: Ube-Shinkawa ⇄ Higashi-Shinkawa

Kotoshiba Station opened on 29 November 1929 on what was then a private line in the city of Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The line was nationalised in 1943 as the Ube Tōsen and was renamed the Ube Line on 1 February 1948. JR West succeeded JNR on 1 April 1987. The wooden station building was demolished in 2020 and replaced by a small prefabricated waiting room. The station consists of a single ground-level side platform serving a bi-directional track and is now unattended, sitting 26.0 km from the Shin-Yamaguchi terminus of the Ube Line.

Ube City Hall, the Yamaguchi Prefecture Ube General Government Building and the Ube branch of the Yamaguchi District Court all stand near the station.