Bunkanomori

Weekday departures: 61/day · Sat & holiday departures: 61/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:53 / 23:03

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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• Mugi Line: Nikenya ⇄ Jizōbashi

Bunkanomori Station opened on 3 November 1990, added by JR Shikoku to the existing Mugi Line to serve the Tokushima Prefectural Cultural Forest Comprehensive Park. The unstaffed station has a single side platform on a concrete embankment with no station building — only a small shelter and a ticket vending machine. At opening, some local trains skipped the stop, but from 2000 all locals called there; a brief period from March 2012 to 2016 reverted to one northbound local passing through. Between November 1998 and November 2001, a temporary stop on a parallel alignment served passengers while the adjacent Sonose River bridge was being replaced.

Despite being named for the Cultural Forest park, the station required a 35-minute walk to reach it; no connecting bus existed until April 2016 — 26 years after the station opened.