History
Nishi-Toyama Station opened on 1 September 1927 as a general station on the Hietsu Line of the Railway Ministry, serving the newly opened Toyama–Etchū-Yatsuo section. The line was reorganised into the Takayama Main Line in 1934, bringing the station with it. Freight and parcel operations were progressively scaled back from the 1960s onward, and the station was unstaffed and its ticket gates removed in March 1996 when scheduled freight handling was suspended. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station came under JR West (with JR Freight handling cargo). It is a two-platform ground-level station with a wooden station building located in Toyama City.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Disused freight sidings once served a Sumitomo Cement depot, a Nippon Alcohol storage yard, and a Kureha steelworks line, all of which were severed when scheduled freight handling ended in 1996.