History
Nishi-Kizu Station opened on 1 December 1952 as an intermediate stop between Kizu and Hōsono on what was then Japanese National Railways' Katamachi Line, in the city of Kizugawa, Kyoto. It passed to JR West with the 1987 privatisation, and the line was given the passenger nickname Gakkentoshi Line in 1988. With the electrification of the Nagao–Kizu section, the station was relocated roughly 100 metres towards Kizu on 11 March 1989 and a simple station building installed; the platform was lengthened again on 13 March 2010 to accept seven-car trains. JR West introduced the JR-H19 station number in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Nishi-Kizu records the lightest ridership of any station on the Gakkentoshi Line: JR West reported a fiscal-2023 daily average of 806 users.