History
Shin-Nishiwaki Station opened on 1 October 1925 as a halt of the private Banshū-Tetsudō (Banshū Railway) between Nomura (now Nishiwakishi) and Hie. It was nationalised on 1 June 1943 when the line was absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways Kakogawa Line, and on the same day was upgraded from a halt to a station. Parcel handling ceased in 1973 and the station was unstaffed from 1986. With the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to West Japan Railway Company. It now has a single ground-level side platform with no station building, and fiscal 2023 averaged only six daily boarding passengers.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Fiscal 2023 ridership averaged just six boarding passengers per day, the bulk of Nishiwaki proper sitting on the opposite bank of the Kako River.