History
Nishi-Tsubame Station opened on 25 December 1954 as a passenger-only stop on the Japanese National Railways' Yahiko Line, slotted in between Nishi-Yoshida (now Yoshida) and Tsubame. Control passed to JR East at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987, and Suica acceptance began on 15 March 2008. The single side platform on the east side of the station building stretches to nine-car length, far longer than the up-to-six-car trains that currently use the Yahiko Line. The station is unstaffed under the management of Tsubame-Sanjō Station, with a simple Suica reader, a boarding-certificate machine, and a small waiting room.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.