History
Nishitomii Station opened on 15 November 1949 on what is now the Mizushima Main Line in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. The Kurashiki municipal government acquired the line from Mizushima Industrial City Development in April 1952, making the station part of the Kurashiki City Transportation Bureau. It then passed to the Mizushima Rinkai Railway on 1 April 1970 when the bureau transferred its facilities. The station was moved 0.4 kilometres towards the line’s starting point and elevated in May 1973. A former freight siding to the JT Kurashiki tobacco factory closed in April 1996 when the plant shut down.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite the station being called "Nishitomii" (West Tomii), it actually sits in the neighbourhood of Kami-Tomii, not Nishi-Tomii: the original 1949 station did stand in Nishi-Tomii, but a 1973 elevation project shifted the platform to its current site without renaming it.