Connections with other services are needed to travel further east of Matsuyama or further west of Iyo-Ōzu/Yawatahama on the line.

[2][5][3] The station was opened on 1 February 1920 as a station of the private Ehime Railway (愛媛鉄道, Ehime Tetsudō), a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) light railway line from Wakamiya Junction (若宮連絡所, Wakamiya-renraku-sho), near Nagahama-machi (the present Iyo-Nagahama) to Uchiko.

On October 6, 1935, after the track had been re-gauged to 1,067 mm, the station became part of the Uchiko Line.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.

[6][7] Media related to Niiya Station (Ehime) at Wikimedia Commons Branches (via Uchiko Line)