Awa-Kainan

Weekday departures: 11/day · Sat & holiday departures: 11/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:57 / 20:34

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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• Mugi Line: Asakawa

Awa-Kainan Station opened on 1 October 1973 as an intermediate stop when Japanese National Railways extended the Mugi Line from Mugi to Kaifu, in what is now Kaiyō, Tokushima Prefecture. It became a simple-commission stop in November 1974 and was made unstaffed in October 2005. The present passenger facility, the Awa-Kainan Station Plaza Community Centre, replaced the old station building on 30 June 2008. JR Shikoku inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. From 1 November 2020 the Awa-Kainan-to-Kaifu segment passed to the third-sector Asa Seaside Railway as part of its Asatō Line, and Awa-Kainan became the Mugi Line's new southern terminus. DMV services began at the adjacent signal box on 25 December 2021, jointly managed by both operators.

Awa-Kainan sits at the rail-to-road handover point of Japan's first revenue-service Dual-Mode Vehicle line: at the signal box just south of the platform, the DMV stops, drops or retracts its steel rail-wheels, and rolls onto the road as a bus to continue south through Asa Seaside Railway's network.