History
Nishihata Station opened on 1937-02-01 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railway's Kihara Line, initially served only by gasoline-powered railcars while steam services passed through. The station closed late in World War II on 1945-06-10 and reopened a year later on 1946-06-10. It was destaffed on 1954-09-16, passed briefly to JR East with privatisation on 1987-04-01, and on 1988-04-01 became part of the third-sector Isumi Railway when the Kihara Line was transferred. The unstaffed single-platform halt sits 25.1 km from the eastern terminus at Ōhara.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.