Nishi-Katakami

History

Nishi-Katakami Station opened on 1 May 1963 as an intermediate stop on the Japanese National Railways Akō Line between Bizen-Katakami and Inbe, built as a petition station with the local community covering the full construction cost. It was staffed at opening, became unattended on 1 December 1985, and passed to JR West with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. ICOCA reader-only IC support began on 15 September 2018. The station moved into a temporary building on 27 September 2025 for reconstruction, with the new station house scheduled to open on 10 March 2026.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

Nishi-Katakami sits on an embankment so much higher than the river-side town below that, although the station is at ground level beside National Route 2, the entrance and platform are three storeys or more above the surrounding streetscape. The reason is that both the railway and the road traverse a narrow strip of riverside flat by running directly above it, cutting across the constrained plain rather than weaving through it.