Timetable information
Weekday departures: 34/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 34/day in the available timetable data
Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:08 / 22:38
Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (3)
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
Location
History
Namikata Station opened on 1 March 1960 when Japanese National Railways added it as a passenger-only, unstaffed intermediate stop on the existing Yosan Line in what is now Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. Control of the station passed to JR Shikoku at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. On 14 November 1990 the station was relocated roughly 100 metres west of its original site and gained a passing loop with two opposed side platforms; before then it had been a simple single-platform halt. There is no station building today, only platform shelters, and access is via a level crossing one hundred metres up the line.
Notes
Crossing between the two platforms at Namikata means leaving the station and walking to a level crossing some distance up the line, because there is no way to move between the platforms inside the station itself.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Bakkai · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18