History
Ibi Station opened on 27 April 1919 when the original Yōrō Railway extended its line from Ikeno to Ibi. Through a succession of mergers it passed in turn to Ibigawa Denki (1922), Yōrō Electric Railway (1928), Ise Electric Railway (1929), Yōrō Dentetsu (1936), Sangū Express Railway (1940), Kansai Express Railway (1941) and Kintetsu (1944, via the merger with Nankai). From 1 October 2007 it has been operated by the present third-sector Yōrō Railway, following Kintetsu’s spin-off of the Yōrō Line. Today the terminal station of the Yōrō Line, located in Ibigawa, Ibi District, Gifu Prefecture, retains a staffed single side platform 57.5 rail kilometres from the opposing terminus at Kuwana.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until 2005 a separate Hon-Ibi terminal a short distance away handled Meitetsu’s Ibi Line trains from Gifu, but the Meitetsu line closed that year, making the present Ibi Station the town’s sole rail gateway.