History
Minawa opened on 19 September 1931 as the temporary terminus of the then Tokushima Main Line in what is now the city of Miyoshi, Tokushima. On 28 November 1935 the track was extended south from here to Toyonaga and the section from Tadotsu to Suzaki was renamed the Dosan Line, transferring Minawa from the Tokushima Line to that route. Less-than-carload freight ended in June 1970, and on 1 October 1970 parcel handling was narrowed to inbound newspapers and the station was made unstaffed under a simple agency arrangement, which has since been discontinued. The 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation handed the station to JR Shikoku. It carries number D23 and sits on the right bank of the Yoshino River.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The platform layout was originally two faces and three tracks, with the third running outside an island platform; that outer track was decommissioned and the layout reduced to today's opposed two-track arrangement.