History
Awa-Ōtani Station opened on 15 April 1961 as a Japanese National Railways stop added to the existing Naruto Line, in what is today the city of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture. With the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation the station passed to JR Shikoku as station N05, 1.3 kilometres from the line origin at Ikenotani. The unstaffed single-platform station has no station building, only an open shelter with six benches on the embankment-borne platform. The surrounding area is the production centre for the Ōtani-ware ceramic tradition, and from the platform passengers can see the brick chimneys of the kilns lined up along the hill.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform overlooks the kilns of Ōtani-yaki, a 230-year-old Tokushima pottery tradition; from the embankment-level station you can see the firing chimneys arranged across the surrounding hillside.