History
Ichibataguchi Station opened on 4 February 1915 as Kozakainada Station (小境灘) on what is now the Ichibata Electric Railway’s Kita-Matsue Line, in the city of Izumo, Shimane Prefecture. It took its present name on 10 December 1944. The Kita-Matsue Line originally continued north from here to Ichibata Yakushi, but that section was closed in 1944 as an “unnecessary railway” under wartime measures and dismantled in 1960, leaving Ichibataguchi as the switchback point on the line. The unstaffed station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a level crossing, and lies 17.5 km from the line’s terminus at Dentetsu-Izumoshi. Only local trains call here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The line once continued north to Ichibata Yakushi, but the spur was closed in 1944 and dismantled in 1960, leaving Ichibataguchi as the switchback point where trains reverse direction.