Niwase

Weekday departures: 171/day · Sat & holiday departures: 171/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:33 / 24:00

Busiest hour: 16:00–17:00 (12)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Sanyō Main Line: Kitanagase ⇄ Nakashō

Niwase Station opened on 25 April 1891, when the Sanyo Railway extended the line between Okayama and Kurashiki. Passenger and freight operations began the same day. The line was nationalised on 1 December 1906 and was formally designated part of the San'yō Main Line in 1909. Freight handling ended in 1960 and parcel handling in 1985. The current station building, opened on 1 April 1986, received the Railway Architectural Association's Station Architecture Award for 1985. The station passed to JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The Midori-no-Madoguchi staffed counter closed in March 2018, and the station has been unstaffed all day since.

The 1986 station building won the Railway Architectural Association's Station Architecture Award for 1985.