Awa-Kainan

Weekday departures: 11/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 11/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:57 / 20:34

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (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 complete: Mugi Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Asato Line: no timetable data

• Mugi Line: Asakawa

Awa-Kainan Station opened on 1 October 1973 as an intermediate stop when Japanese National Railways extended the Mugi Line from Mugi to Kaifu, in what is now Kaiyō, Tokushima Prefecture. It became a simple-commission stop in November 1974 and was made unstaffed in October 2005. The present passenger facility, the Awa-Kainan Station Plaza Community Centre, replaced the old station building on 30 June 2008. JR Shikoku inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. From 1 November 2020 the Awa-Kainan-to-Kaifu segment passed to the third-sector Asa Seaside Railway as part of its Asatō Line, and Awa-Kainan became the Mugi Line's new southern terminus. DMV services began at the adjacent signal box on 25 December 2021, jointly managed by both operators.

Awa-Kainan sits at the boundary between the rail and road sections of Asa Seaside Railway's Dual-Mode Vehicle operation: on the mode interchange at the adjoining Awa-Kainan signal box, which is the zero point of the Asatō Line, the DMV halts to deploy or retract its steel rail wheels, switching between running on rails south towards Kaifu and driving on the road past the DMV "Awa-Kainan Station" bus stop laid out alongside the Mugi Line platform.