Minabe

Weekday departures: 57/day · Sat & holiday departures: 57/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:35 / 23:53

Busiest hour: 12:00–13:00 (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.

• Kisei Line: Iwashiro ⇄ Haya

Minabe Station opened on 21 September 1931 when Japanese Government Railways' Kisei-Nishi Line was extended from Inami. A further extension on 8 November 1932 took the line south to Kii-Tanabe, leaving Minabe as an intermediate stop. The line became part of the Kisei Main Line in July 1959. From the 1980 timetable revision the station has been a Kuroshio limited-express stop, with most stopping-type Kuroshio services calling. Freight ended in 1980 and parcel handling in 1985. JR West inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation; the staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed on 12 March 2021 and the station has been unstaffed throughout the day from the following day. ICOCA became usable on 17 December 2016.

Minabe is a regular Kuroshio limited-express stop and gains extra plum-blossom-season express stops during the local ume orchards' peak bloom.