Kawanoe

Weekday departures: 75/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 75/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:27 / 23:30

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

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:

• Yosan Line: one direction only
• Yosan Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Yosan Line: Minoura ⇄ Iyo-Mishima

Kawanoe Station was established on 1 April 1916 as a station of the Imperial Railway Agency. An overpass was installed in late October 1957, and the station building was rebuilt on 25 March 1983. Freight handling ended in 1984 and parcel handling in 1986, and the station passed to JR Shikoku at the 1 April 1987 division and privatization of Japanese National Railways. In the 1 June 1988 line-name revision, the Yosan Main Line was renamed the Yosan Line, and the station came under it. From October 2021 a Midori no Kenbaiki Plus (green ticket machine) began operating, and the Midori no Madoguchi ceased operation on 31 December of the same year. Its station number is Y22, and the limited expresses 'Shiokaze' and 'Ishizuchi' stop here.

It is the easternmost station in Ehime Prefecture, and the Yosan Line crosses the border into Kagawa Prefecture through the Torigoe Tunnel between this station and neighboring Minoura Station. The catchphrase on the station's display panel is 'The Paper Station, in a Town Wrapped Entirely in Paper.'