Kottoi

Weekday departures: 23/day · Sat & holiday departures: 23/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:29 / 22:05

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• San'in Main Line: Agawa ⇄ Takibe

Kottoi Station opened on 9 September 1928 with the extension of the then Kogushi Line — the line was renamed the San'in Main Line on 24 February 1933 — from Takibe to Agawa, with both passenger and freight services. Freight handling ceased on 1 August 1961 and parcels on 20 December 1971, when the station was downgraded from a direct-run JNR station to a simple agency station. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. Storm flooding on the Awano River bridge on 1 July 2023 forced suspension between Nagatoshi and Kogushi; service through Kottoi was restored on 27 September 2025, with the same pre-disaster frequency of eleven trains per day.

The station name 'Kottoi' is widely flagged as one of Japan's hardest station names to read; it likely derives from a regional word for cow (牝牛, meushi → kottoi) or from a nearby Sea of Japan inlet called Kotoe, and in classical waka it also served as a stock pillow-word for miyake, the imperial estates that are thought to have raised the cattle and horses used in court business.