Nishi-Sakawa Station

Nishi-Sakawa Station (西佐川駅, Nishi-Sakawa-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Sakawa, Takaoka District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.

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

[3][6] The station became unstaffed on 1 September 2010 when JR Shikoku closed its ticket counter.

[7] In 2016, JR Shikoku handed the station building over to the Sakawa Town authorities who renovated it.

On 23 February 2017, the Niyodo Blue Tourism Association (仁淀ブルー観光協議会, Niyodo Burū kankō kyōgi-kai), a body which promotes tourism in the Niyodogawa river valley, moved its offices into the station building and also set up a tourist information centre there.