Kumayama Station
railway station in Akaiwa, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Kumayama Station (熊山駅, Kumayama-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Akaiwa, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Kumayama Station is served by the JR San'yō Main Line, and is located 119.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kobe.
Station layout
Originally, the station consisted of a side platform and an island platform, but in 2014, the overhead wire for the middle track, which had largely been used as a siding (former platform No. 2) was removed. The old No. 3 platform has been renumbered to No. 2 platform. Therefore, at present, is effectively two opposed side platforms and two tracks. The station building is located on the side of the platform for Himeji, and is connected to the island platform for Okayama via a footbridge. This footbridge was certified as a modern industrial heritage in February 2009.
“Kumayama Station” enters the record as railway station in Akaiwa, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kumayama, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5360774. Authority coordinates are 34.783, 134.109. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2009.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kumayama Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.