Kushimoto

Weekday departures: 30/day · Sat & holiday departures: 30/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:45 / 22:55

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kisei Line: Kii-Hime ⇄ Kii-Arita

Kushimoto Station opened on 11 December 1936 as the terminus of the JNR Kisei Naka Line, extended from Shimosato. The line was pushed onward to Esumi on 8 August 1940, making Kushimoto a through-station, and was rolled into the all-through Kisei Main Line in July 1959. Freight handling ended on 10 April 1975, the current concrete station building was finished on 11 December 1979, and parcel service ended on 14 March 1985. Operation passed to JR West on 1 April 1987. ICOCA was rolled out on 17 December 2016, and the staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 17 May 2021.

Kushimoto holds the title of southernmost station on Honshū — and just outside the station a short tunnel mouth on the Wakayama-bound side marks the southernmost piece of railway track on the island.