Niwase

Weekday departures: 171/day · Sat & holiday departures: 171/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:33 / 24:00 (00:00 next day)

Busiest hour: 16:00–17:00 (12)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Sanyo Main Line: Kitanagase ⇄ Nakasho

Niwase Station opened on 25 April 1891, when the Sanyo Railway extended the line between Okayama and Kurashiki. Passenger and freight operations began the same day. The line was nationalised on 1 December 1906 and was formally designated part of the San'yō Main Line in 1909. Freight handling ended in 1960 and parcel handling in 1985. The current station building, opened on 1 April 1986, received the Railway Architectural Association's Station Architecture Award for 1985. The station passed to JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The Midori-no-Madoguchi staffed counter closed in March 2018, and the station has been unstaffed all day since.

The 1986 station building won the Railway Architectural Association's Station Architecture Award for 1985.