Station

Iwashiro

岩代

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Iwashiro
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 34/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 34/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:41 / 23:47

Busiest hour (known departures): 20:00–21:00 (3)


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).

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Iwashiro Station opened on 21 September 1931 as a Japanese Government Railways stop on what was then the Kisei-Nishi Line. The station lies in Minabe in Wakayama Prefecture's Hidaka District and sits 299.6 km along the Kisei Main Line (Kinokuni Line) from Kameyama. The line was completed end-to-end and renamed in July 1959. Freight handling ended in 1971 and parcel service in 1972, with the station becoming unstaffed on 14 March 1985. Control passed to JR West with the JNR privatisation in April 1987, and the ICOCA IC card became usable here on 14 March 2020. The original station building survives.

Notes

Iwashiro Station appears in Hiroko Taniyama's song 'Tengusa no Uta'.

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