Bando

Known weekday departures: 31/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 31/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:10 / 22:48

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (3)

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).

• Kotoku Line: Ikenotani ⇄ Awa-Kawabata

Bandō Station opened on 15 February 1923 as part of the privately operated Awa Electric Railway, later renamed the Awa Railway. The line was nationalised on 1 July 1933 and the station passed to Japanese Government Railways as part of the Awa Line; on 20 March 1935 it became a station on the Kōtoku Main Line. The booking office was abolished in April 1984 and the station was reduced to simple commissioned operation. JR Shikoku assumed control on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways, and the route was renamed the Kōtoku Line in June 1988. The station is the closest stop to Ryōzen-ji.

Bandō is the closest railway station to Ryōzen-ji, the first temple on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage, and to the National Historic Site of the former Bandō prisoner-of-war camp.