History
Nishi-Yamana Station opened on 15 June 1930 as Suieijōmae Station (水泳場前駅, literally "In-front-of-the-swimming-pool Station"), serving a several-hundred-metre-long swimming pool that Jōshin Dentetsu had dammed across the nearby Kabura River as a tourism-promotion attraction. When wartime restraint forced the pool to close, the station was renamed Irino (入野駅) on 27 December 1938. It received its present name Nishi-Yamana on 20 December 1986 and became unstaffed from 1 May 1988.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The unusually styled platform fittings and station furnishings at Nishi-Yamana were the graduation project of students from the adjacent Takasaki Industrial Training School.