History
Bitchū-Kawamo Station opened on 31 July 1927 when the Hakubi South Line was extended from Kinoyama, initially as a provisional terminus. The Hakubi North and South sections were joined on 25 October 1928 to form the Hakubi Line and through-running between Bitchū-Kawamo and Kamiishimi started on 25 November, making the station an intermediate stop. Freight was discontinued in 1963 and parcel handling in 1971, when the station was made unstaffed. JNR privatisation passed the station to JR West on 1 April 1987, and ICOCA service began on 13 March 2021. The station has two opposed platforms allowing trains to cross, with a concrete station building on the down-line side and a footbridge connecting both platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station spent its first month as the Hakubi South Line's terminus, scheduled trains did not actually start running over the new connection to Kamiishimi until a month after the line itself was formally extended.