Namikata

Known weekday departures: 34/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 34/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:08 / 22:38

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (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).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Yosan Line: one direction only
• Yosan Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Yosan Line: Hashihama ⇄ Onishi

Namikata Station opened on 1 March 1960 when Japanese National Railways added it as a passenger-only, unstaffed intermediate stop on the existing Yosan Line in what is now Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. Control of the station passed to JR Shikoku at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. On 14 November 1990 the station was relocated roughly 100 metres west of its original site and gained a passing loop with two opposed side platforms; before then it had been a simple single-platform halt. There is no station building today, only platform shelters, and access is via a level crossing one hundred metres up the line.

Crossing between the two platforms at Namikata means leaving the station and walking to a level crossing some distance up the line, because there is no way to move between the platforms inside the station itself.