History
Nishi-Hamada Station opened on 10 March 1922 as Iwami-Nagahama Station on the San'in Main Line, with the line's extension from Hamada to Sufu. It sits 478.7 kilometres from the Kyoto terminus of the line, in what is today Hamada, Shimane Prefecture. The station was renamed Nishi-Hamada on 15 December 1949. A freight branch to Hamada Port operated from 1 August 1955 to 7 November 1982, when freight handling at the station ceased. The station became unstaffed on 14 March 1985, was staffed again briefly at JR West's takeover on 1 April 1987, and was returned to unstaffed status on 10 March 1990. In August 2023 JR West proposed to demolish the wooden building under its station-simplification programme.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Unusually for a passing station, the two platforms at Nishi-Hamada are not parallel — the two tracks fan slightly apart at this point.