History
Nanawa Station opened on 5 April 1914 as a passing station on the Hokusei Railway, which was renamed Hokusei Electric Railway in 1934 and merged into Sanco in 1944. The station was moved to its present site on 23 March 1963 in anticipation of increased ridership from the newly opened Kuwana Technical High School. A series of further transfers placed it under Mie Electric Railway (1964) and then Kintetsu Railway (1965), before the Hokusei Line was spun off to Sangi Railway on 1 April 2003. The station became unstaffed on 1 March 2000 and a refurbished station building with automatic ticket gates entered service on 1 September 2005, with remote supervision from Tōin Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station’s name commemorates the 1889 merger of seven villages that adopted the name "Nanawa" (七和, "harmony of seven"); the seven-village district was absorbed into Kuwana City in 1951, but the original name survives only here at the station.