History
Nishi-Kiryū Station opened on 10 November 1928 as the eastern terminus of the Jōmō Electric Railway's Jōmō Line. On 21 September 1992 the station began selling Tobu Railway "Ryōmō" limited-express tickets. In 1998 it was named one of the "100 Stations of the Kantō Region." On 26 December 2005 both the station building and the platform canopy were designated Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan, and in 2016 the building was further recognised as a Civil Engineering Society of Japan Selected Civil Engineering Heritage as part of the Jōmō Electric Railway Heritage Group.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's wooden building, in use since 1928, is a Western-style structure with a mansard roof — though the duty room is a Japanese tatami room and the adjacent kitchen has a packed-earth doma floor, making the whole an east-west hybrid. The Kantō Stations selection committee cited it as "a station building in the weaving town of Kiryū that has survived since its opening and where one can experience weaving."