History
Wani Station opened on 20 July 1974 with the completion of the Kosei Line, then operated by Japanese National Railways. With the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. ICOCA acceptance began on 1 November 2003, and barrier-free renovations finished on 3 December 2005, adding an elevator, multipurpose restroom, and electronic departure board. Powered automatic ticket gates entered service on 4 February 2013, station numbering JR-B23 was assigned on 17 March 2018, and a turnback siding for westerly-wind disruptions was added in March 2019. The staffed ticket window closed on 30 June 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because the second character of the station name "邇" is too complex to render on the dot-matrix in-car displays of older 221- and 223-series trains, those displays substitute the simplified glyph "迩", and the same simplified spelling is used in the official name of the nearby Wani Interchange on the Kosei Road.