Kawahara

Weekday departures: 23/day · Sat & holiday departures: 23/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:34 / 22:35

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (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.

• Inbi Line: Koge ⇄ Kunifusa

Kawahara Station opened on 20 December 1919 with the inauguration of the Imperial Railway Agency's Inbi Light Rail (now the Inbi Line) between Tottori and Mochigase. The line dropped its "light rail" classification on 2 September 1922, with the station reassigned to the renamed Inbi Line. After the Inbi South Line opened in 1928, the section here was redesignated the Inbi North Line, then merged into the unified Inbi Line on 1 July 1932 with through-service between Tottori and Tsuyama. On 1 October 1970 the station ceased to be a general (freight-handling) station and became unstaffed, and was later placed under simplified entrustment. JR West took over at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the wooden station building remains in use.

Kawahara was originally a passing station with an island platform serving two tracks, but one track was later removed, leaving a single bi-directional track. The remaining side platform lies on the right-hand side of the line facing Chizu and is used by trains in both directions.