Nishi-Wada

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Nishi-Wada Station opened on 10 November 1920 as a general-purpose station of the Japanese Government Railways Kushiro Main Line (later the Nemuro Main Line), inaugurated together with the line's extension from Attoko. The following year, on 5 August 1921, the line was pushed onward to Nemuro and a watering point with a wye for locomotive turning was installed here. The station's status fluctuated between simplified and general operation through the 1930s. Freight handling ended in 1974, parcel service in 1984, and the station became unstaffed shortly after; the original building was later replaced with a converted freight-car structure. JR Hokkaido inherited the stop at privatisation on 1 April 1987.

The 'Nishi' (west) and 'Higashi' (east) Wada place names trace to the 1886 settlement of the area by 220 tonden-hei (military-farmer) households who named the district after their battalion commander, Wada Masanae.