is a railway station on the

Takayama Main Line The is a Japanese railway line between Gifu Station in Gifu and Toyama Station in Toyama, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The line directly links the Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (m ...

in the city of Minokamo,

Gifu Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, F ...

, Japan, operated by

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

(JR Central).

Lines

Kobi Station is served by the

, and is located 30.3 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at .

Station layout

Kobi Station has two opposed ground-level

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s connected by a level crossing. The station is unattended.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Kobi Station opened on November 25, 1922. The station was absorbed into the JR Central network upon the privatization of

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR) on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in March 2017.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 369 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

* Kamo High School * Kobi Post Office

References

{{Takayama Main Line (JR Central) Railway stations in Gifu Prefecture Takayama Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1922 Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Minokamo, Gifu