Nishi-Kuwana

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Nishi-Kuwana Station opened on 5 April 1914 as Ōyamada Station on the Hokusei Railway and was renamed Nishi-Kuwana on 8 July 1931, following the renaming of the surrounding Nishi-Kuwana town — which itself had been Ōyamada village until 1929. The 1934 corporate rename made it part of Hokusei Electric Railway; a 1944 merger placed it under Sanco. The 1 November 1961 closure of the Kuwana-Kyōbashi to Nishi-Kuwana section made Nishi-Kuwana the terminus of the Hokusei Line. Operations passed to Mie Electric Railway in 1964 and to Kintetsu in 1965; the station moved to its present site on 11 May 1977. On 1 April 2003 the line was transferred to Sangi Railway. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 1 December 2003, and operational dispatch transferred to Tōin Station on 26 March 2005.

Although it carries the name "West Kuwana", the station sits on the south-east side of the JR/Kintetsu Kuwana Station. The name is a place name rather than a direction: the station opened in 1914 as Ōyamada Station in Ōyamada village, and when the village became the town of Nishi-Kuwana in 1929 the station was renamed to match in 1931 — the old town name has stayed with it ever since.