Kawayama

Weekday departures: 20/day · Sat & holiday departures: 20/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:52 / 22:31

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.

• Nishikigawa Seiryu Line: Yanaze ⇄ Nekasa

Kawayama Station opened on 1 November 1960 as the terminus of the Gannichi Line, then a Japanese National Railways branch extended out from Kawanishi. The line was pushed further on 1 October 1963 to Nishiki-chō, making Kawayama a through stop. Freight handling was scaled back from 1971 — following the closure of the Nippon Mining Kawayama mine — and ended outright by October 1974. Control of the station passed briefly to JR West at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 before being handed to the third-sector Nishikigawa Railway on 25 July 1987. The line was renamed the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line and Kawayama lies 27.9 km from Kawanishi.

Disused sidings here still hold a derelict semaphore signal and switch lever, relics of when Kawayama was a passing loop for ore trains from the nearby Kawayama mine.