Kusano Station | |
Style: | JR East |
Native Name: | 草野駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Taira Izumisaki, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima-ken 970-0112 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 37.0739°N 140.9475°W |
Operator: | JR East |
Line: | Jōban Line |
Distance: | 214.8 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side + 1 island platform |
Tracks: | 3 |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Opened: | August 29, 1897 |
Passengers: | 397 daily |
Pass Year: | FY2018 |
Map Type: | Japan Fukushima Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Kusano Station |
is a railway station in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Kusano Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 214.8 km from the official starting point of the line at .[1]
The station has an island platform and a side platform connected by a footbridge. It became an unstaffed station on March 14, 2020.[1]
Kusano Station opened on August 29, 1897. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.[1] Services were suspended from March 11 to April 17, 2011, following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 397 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]