History
Kawahara Station opened on 20 December 1919 with the inauguration of the Imperial Railway Agency's Inbi Light Rail (now the Inbi Line) between Tottori and Mochigase. The line dropped its "light rail" classification on 2 September 1922, with the station reassigned to the renamed Inbi Line. After the Inbi South Line opened in 1928, the section here was redesignated the Inbi North Line, then merged into the unified Inbi Line on 1 July 1932 with through-service between Tottori and Tsuyama. The station was destaffed on 1 October 1970, becoming a simplified entrusted station. JR West took over at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the wooden station building from 1919 remains in use.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kawahara was originally a passing station with a two-track island platform, but one track was later removed, leaving a single bi-directional track served by the remaining side platform on the Chizu-bound side.