History
Nii Station opened on 29 August 1901 as the terminus of the Banta Railway's extension from Ikuno, at Nakagahara, Nii, Asago, Hyōgo Prefecture, handling both passengers and freight. The Banta Railway was sold to the Sanyō Railway on 1 June 1903, the line was extended onward to Wadayama on 1 April 1906, and the Sanyō Railway was nationalised on 1 December 1906; the line became the Banta Line under the 12 October 1909 line-name regulation. Wagon-load freight ended on 1 April 1980, parcel handling ended and the station was de-staffed on 4 April 1983, and on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation. Management of the station moved from Fukusaki to Toyooka on 1 June 2022, and on 1 October 2022 organisational reform placed it under the Fukuchiyama Management Division of the Kinki Statistical Headquarters.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The wooden station building still has a property plaque inscribed "August Meiji 34" (1901), the original opening date; it took its present form in a 1937 renovation from an initially simple gable roof. Because there is another "Niigata Niijima Station" — written 新井 but read "Arai" — on the Echigo Tokimeki Railway (formerly the Shin'etsu Main Line), tickets sold from this station carry the disambiguating prefix "(播) 新井" (Banta Nii).