History
Nishi-Kitami Station opened on 1986-11-01 as the JNR Nishi-Kitami provisional halt (rinji-jōkōjō) on the Sekihoku Main Line, an unstaffed stop handling passengers only. The provisional name during planning had been 'Miwa', after the local district; the final name reflects its position west of Kitami Station. At the 1987-04-01 privatisation the halt was promoted to a regular station and passed to JR Hokkaido. It is a ground-level station with a single side platform managed from Kitami Station; the Rapid Kitami service stops here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The bare-concrete waiting room is shaped as a stylised onion — a nod to Kitami's status as one of Japan's largest onion-producing regions.