Atashika

Weekday departures: 20/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 20/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:14 / 23:13

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 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:

• Kisei Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Kisei Line: Nigishima ⇄ Hadasu

Atashika Station opened on 1 April 1956 as the then terminus of Japanese National Railways' Kisei-Nishi Line. The line was renamed the Kisei Main Line on 15 July 1959 when the final extension to Mikisato closed the gap with the eastern half of the route. The station has been unstaffed since 21 December 1983, though staff were dispatched to sell tickets until about 1992. Operation passed to Central Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. The station building, similar in design to neighbouring stations opened around the same time, dates from the station's opening.

Staff are still dispatched to sell tickets on the day of the Kumano Grand Fireworks Festival each August.