History
Shikinami Station opened on 24 April 1898 as a general station on the Nanao Railway between the Tsubata provisional stop (forerunner of Hon-Tsubata) and the Yatashin terminus (later Nanao-kō). The Nanao Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907 and the line was named the Nanao Line on 12 October 1909. Freight handling ended on 1 August 1960; parcel handling and full staffing ended in March 1972, when the station was reduced to simple-commission operation. JR West took over the station at the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation. The west entrance was opened on 5 February 2013, and ICOCA acceptance began on 13 March 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Shikinami was the only station in the former town of Shio (now part of Hōdatsushimizu), the town centre actually sits closer to neighbouring Minami-Hakui as the crow flies.