History
Koyūkan-Shineki Station opened on 1 October 1995 as the access stop for the Shinjiko Park Koyūkan amusement facility, funded entirely by the former Hirata city as a petitioned (request) station. It was the first request-funded station on the Ichibata Electric Railway, and the operator embedded 'Shin-eki' (new station) into the name to mark it — yielding 'Koyūkan Shineki Station', literally 'Koyūkan-New-Station Station'. When the original Ichibata Electric Railway became a holding company on 1 April 2006, the rail business transferred to a newly incorporated Ichibata Electric Railway Co. The station has a single side platform with only a shelter — no station building — and is unstaffed. It carries number 11 on the Kita-Matsue Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's formal name ends in 'eki eki' (駅駅) — 'Station Station' — a quirk shared with very few others, most famously Seoul Station Station (ソウル駅駅) on a Tokyo-area private line.