is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It is sometimes popularly referred to simply as "Minakusa"
Minami-Kusatsu Station is served by the Biwako Line portion of the Tà Âkaidà  Main Line, and is 48.0 kilometers from and 493.9 kilometers from .
The station consists of two island platforms connected by an elevated station building. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
The station opened on 4 September 1994, following a successful petition for its construction by Kusatsu. The city contributed about ÃÂ¥3 billion of the total ÃÂ¥30 billion costs of construction. The station has stimulated urban growth in the surrounding area, especially after the opening of Ritsumeikan University's Biwako-Kusatsu Campus (BKC) in 1994.
Station numbering was introduced to the station in March 2018 with Minami-Kusatsu being assigned station number JR-A25.
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 30,443 passengers (boarding passengers only) in 2019, making it the 26th-busiest station by traffic in the West Japan Railway Company's network.