Timetable information
Weekday departures: 97/day · Sat & holiday departures: 94/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:13 / 24:02 (00:02 next day)
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (9)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 7 August 2026.
Adjacent stations
- IR Ishikawa Railway Line: Matto ⇄ Kaga-Kasama
Location
History
Nishi-Mattō Station is an IR Ishikawa Railway Line station in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, sited about 1.9 km from Mattō and 2.5 km from Kaga-Kasama, adjacent to the Hokuriku Shinkansen’s Hakusan General Rolling Stock Yard. The Hokushin’etsu District Transport Bureau authorised it in April 2021; after a public name solicitation in late 2021 the choice was confirmed in March 2022. Construction was financed by national and local government subsidies, in coordination with the city’s Mattō Kitayasuda land readjustment project. The station opened on 16 March 2024, the same day the Hokuriku Shinkansen reached Tsuruga and the parallel Hokuriku Main Line section between Daishōji and Kanazawa transferred to IR Ishikawa Railway. Its 130-m two-platform layout fits six-car trains, with roughly half-hourly local service each way.
Notes
The chosen name only came third in the public ballot, behind “Hakusan” and “Kaga-Hakusan”; a school survey and a selection panel decided in favour of Nishi-Mattō.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: 神子原光 · CC0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-22