Mimasaka-Kawai

Weekday departures: 12/day · Sat & holiday departures: 12/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:47 / 21:33

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (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: Nagi ⇄ Chiwa

Mimasaka-Kawai Station opened on 12 September 1931 as the temporary northern terminus of the JGR Inbi South Line, extended from Mimasaka-Kamo. When the line was further extended to Chizu in July 1932 the station became an intermediate stop on what is now the Inbi Line. Freight handling ended in 1962, staff were withdrawn in October 1970, and the passing loop and island platform were removed in November 1997 when the express "Sakyū" was discontinued. The single ground-level side platform retains its wooden station building, and the station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation.

A hand-operated turntable once used to turn snowploughs lies south-west of the station; buried in the ground after it fell out of use, it was excavated in April 2007 and designated a Modernisation Industrial Heritage site in February 2009.