Nishikicho

Known weekday departures: 10/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 10/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:44 / 20:20

Busiest hour (known departures): 5:00–6:00 (1)

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).

• Nishikigawa Seiryu Line: Yanaze

Nishiki-chō Station opened on 1 October 1963 as the western terminus of the Japanese National Railways' Gannichi Line when the track was extended from Kawayama, in what is now Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred operations to JR West, which then ceded the line to the third-sector Nishikigawa Railway on 25 July 1987, rebranding the route as the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line. On 7 July 2002, the unused trackbed of the cancelled Gannichi-Hokusen line beyond the station was repurposed as a rubber-tyred sightseeing vehicle route to Sōzukyō Onsen; the service was named "Tokotoko Train" by public vote in 2003. The station is staffed and houses the Nishikigawa Railway corporate headquarters.

The station was to have been rebuilt on a curved alignment if the Gannichi Line were ever extended onward toward Muikaichi and Nichihara, but that extension was never built; instead, the roadbed of the cancelled Gannichi North Line was reused decades later for the Tokotoko Train sightseeing service.