History
Nishi-Kuwana Station opened on 5 April 1914 as Ōyamada Station on the Hokusei Railway and was renamed Nishi-Kuwana on 8 July 1931, following the renaming of the surrounding Nishi-Kuwana town — which itself had been Ōyamada village until 1929. The 1934 corporate rename made it part of Hokusei Electric Railway; a 1944 merger placed it under Sanco. The 1 November 1961 closure of the Kuwana-Kyōbashi to Nishi-Kuwana section made Nishi-Kuwana the terminus of the Hokusei Line. Operations passed to Mie Electric Railway in 1964 and to Kintetsu in 1965; the station moved to its present site on 11 May 1977. On 1 April 2003 the line was transferred to Sangi Railway. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 1 December 2003, and operational dispatch transferred to Tōin Station on 26 March 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Although it carries the name "West Kuwana", the station actually sits south-east of the JR/Kintetsu Kuwana Station; the name reflects its 1914-era location west of central Kuwana, before the 1977 relocation moved it east — the historical Nishi-Kuwana town name stuck.