Kushiro (Shimane)

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

First / last departure (weekday): 5:32 / 22:26

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (2)

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: Hashi ⇄ Shimoko

Kushiro Station opened on 1 March 1959 as an infill stop on the JNR San'in Main Line between Hashi and Shimokō, in what is today the city of Hamada, Shimane Prefecture. The station opened unstaffed and has remained so; only local trains call. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. The station sits 465.6 kilometres from Kyoto on a single side platform high above the surrounding settlement, accessed directly from a small entrance at the Izumo end of the platform. In the era of locomotive-hauled passenger trains, some scheduled local services passed through without stopping because their carriages exceeded the platform's usable length — a practice that continued until March 1992, by which time all local trains had been converted to diesel railcars.

Some scheduled local trains once passed through Kushiro without stopping, because their locomotive-hauled carriages overran the short platform; the practice continued until March 1992, by which time all local trains had been converted to diesel railcars.