History
Nima Station opened on 15 May 1917 as the temporary terminus when the Imperial Railway Agency extended the San'in Main Line from Iwami-Ōda (now Ōdashi); the line was pushed on to Asari on 25 November 1918 and Nima became an intermediate stop. Freight handling ended on 15 June 1973 and parcel service on 14 March 1985, and the station joined JR West at the 1987 privatisation. The ticket window closed on 31 March 2022, and the station is now an unstaffed stop managed from the Hamada district under a single-track-through operating pattern using two island-platform tracks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Nima is the access point for the Nima Sand Museum, home to the world's largest hourglass, and for the Iwami Ginzan World Heritage Site reached via local routes from the station.