History
Namikata Station opened on 1 March 1960 when Japanese National Railways added it as a passenger-only, unstaffed intermediate stop on the existing Yosan Line in what is now Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. Control of the station passed to JR Shikoku at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. On 14 November 1990 the station was relocated roughly 100 metres west of its original site and gained a passing loop with two opposed side platforms; before then it had been a simple single-platform halt. There is no station building today, only platform shelters, and access is via a level crossing one hundred metres up the line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Crossing between the two platforms at Namikata requires walking out of the station and using a level crossing some distance up the line — the station's tracks have no internal connection of any kind.