History
Shiwachi Station opened on 28 April 1915 as the terminus of the Geibi Railway, in what is now Shimo-Shiwachi-chō in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture. On 1 June 1915 the line was extended to Miyoshi (then Nishi-Miyoshi), making Shiwachi an intermediate stop. The Geibi Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1937, integrating the station into the JNR Geibi Line, and parcel handling and direct staffing ended on 8 March 1983, when the station shifted to simplified-commission ticketing. JNR’s 1987 break-up brought the station under JR West, the commission arrangement was lifted in 2009, and the station was suspended on 6 July 2018 after heavy-rain damage; provisional service between Miyoshi and Naka-Mita was restored on 4 April 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The line through Shiwachi has three other stations with near-identical readings — Shimo-Wachi, Shiomachi and Shiwaguchi — and operator timetables flag the names specifically to avoid passenger confusion.