Kiwa (Yamaguchi)

Weekday departures: 36/day · Sat & holiday departures: 36/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:49 / 22:28

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Ube Line: Ajisu ⇄ Maruo

Kiwa Station opened on 17 August 1924 when the privately operated Ube Railway extended its line from Hon-Ajisu (today's Ajisu) to Tokonami in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The Ube Railway was nationalised in 1943, with the line absorbed into JNR as the Ube Higashi Line; it took its current Ube Line name on 1 February 1948. The station became unstaffed at that 1948 reorganisation. JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred the station to JR West, and the station building was rebuilt in 2020, leaving the passenger area as an open-sided roofed frame. The station sits at the 12.7 km point of the Ube Line from Shin-Yamaguchi.

Kiwa holds the last surviving on-platform level crossing on the Ube Line, used to connect the station building to the opposite track.