History
Chiwa Station opened as a provisional stop on 12 September 1931, when the Inbi South Line — now part of the JR West Inbi Line — was extended from Mimasaka-Kawai to Mimasaka-Kamo, in present-day Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture. Both freight and parcel handling were discontinued and the station was destaffed on 1 October 1970. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. The station occupies a single ground-level side platform serving a bidirectional track, and the wooden station building dating from the opening is still in use. In fiscal 2019 the station was used by an average of six passengers daily.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the 14 March 2020 timetable revision morning trains in the Chizu direction skipped Chiwa entirely because every up-direction service was a rapid that ran through without stopping; the first daily train northbound at the station was logged at 12:09.