Niizato

Known weekday departures: 17/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 17/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:10 / 23:07

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).

• JR Hakubi Line: Kamiiwami ⇄ Ashidachi

Niizato Station opened on 15 December 1953 on the JNR Hakubi Line in what was then the village of Niizato, Okayama Prefecture (now part of Niimi). Although the railway had reached the area in December 1926, no station was originally provided and locals had to cross a mountain pass to use Kami-Iwami Station in neighbouring Tottori Prefecture. Postwar petitioning by the village mayor and roughly 3.2 million yen raised from the sale of village forest timber funded the construction. The original platform stood about 100 metres north of the current site, and the station was relocated in February 1972 during the line's double-tracking and electrification. JR West took over operations on 1 April 1987.

Construction of the station was funded largely by selling timber from the village's communal forest, after the village mayor petitioned for a station in the years following World War II; until then residents had to cross a mountain pass on foot to reach Kami-Iwami Station in Tottori Prefecture, even though the line had run through the area since 1926.