Niiya

Weekday departures: 17/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 17/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:31 / 21:54

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

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:

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

• Uchiko Line: Kitayama (Ehime)
• Yosan Line: Iyo-Ozu

Niiya Station opened on 1 May 1920 as a station of the privately built Ehime Railway, a 762 mm light-rail line from Wakamiya Junction (near present-day Iyo-Nagahama) to Uchiko. Nationalised on 1 October 1933 and re-gauged to 1,067 mm in October 1935, the station joined the Uchiko Line. It was moved about 200 metres towards Gorō on 1 September 1983, and on 3 March 1986 the Yosan Line's new Iyo-Ōzu–Niiya section opened while the old Niiya–Gorō line closed. JR Shikoku took control with the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The current station consists of two opposed side platforms with no internal crossing — passengers must use a level crossing some distance away to change platforms.

Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto spent his wartime childhood in the Niiya district and has said the clock tower of the old Niiya Station and the steam locomotives that passed it shaped the imagery of his later masterwork "Galaxy Express 999"; the street in front of the station is now called "999-dōri".