History
Nishi-Kurisu Station opened on 24 March 1934 when the Ministry of Railways extended the Himetsu Line (predecessor of today's Kishin Line) from Harima-Shingū to Mikazuki. With the opening of the Himetsu-Nishi section that November the route was renamed the Himetsu-East Line, and the full Himeji - Higashi-Tsuyama line was completed on 8 April 1936, becoming the Kishin Line on 10 October 1936. Freight handling ended in 1962 and parcel service in 1971, leaving the station unstaffed. JR West took over with the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, and the deteriorating wooden station building was demolished in fiscal 2019, replaced by simple shelter facilities completed in March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.