Awa

Known weekday departures: 10/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 10/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:23 / 20:44

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Dosan Line: Tosa-Shinjo ⇄ Tosa-Kure

Awa Station opened on 15 November 1939 when the Dosan Line was extended westwards from Susaki to Tosa-Kure in Kōchi Prefecture, then under Japanese Government Railways. The unstaffed stop sits 173.6 km from the line's origin at Tadotsu and is bracketed by Tosa-Shinjō and Tosa-Kure. The original island platform was subsequently simplified to a single side platform, and the remains of a former freight platform are still visible. Control passed to Japanese National Railways and then, on 1 April 1987, to JR Shikoku at privatisation. Today only a small weather shelter stands on the platform, with the station bearing the line identifier K21.

The station stands close to the Awa coast, and the platform commands a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean.