Station

Nishibara

西原

Nishibara
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Train service

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

First / last train (weekday): 5:52 / 23:29

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Japanese Government Railways opened Nishibara Station on 1 October 1964 as an infill stop on the existing Mugi Line in the city of Anan, Tokushima Prefecture. The construction cost of 1.15 million yen was met by the town, with land provided by local residents; more than three hundred residents attended the inauguration and the semi-express Muroto No. 1 made a special stop. JR Shikoku took over from JNR on 1 April 1987 and now operates the station under number M10. The station has never had a building — only a shelter and a separate toilet block on its single side platform — and a flush toilet was installed in January 1996 with about 2.5 million yen of user donations.

Notes

The station's flush toilet was funded by roughly 2.5 million yen of donations from passengers in 1996 — an unusually direct community investment for an unstaffed rural halt.

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