History
Ikeno Station opened on 31 July 1913 as the temporary terminus of the original Yōrō Railway between Yōrō and Ikeno. An extension to Ibi on 27 April 1919 turned it into a through station. The route then passed through a long succession of corporate owners — Ibigawa Electric (1922), Yōrō Electric Railway (1928), Ise Electric (1929), Yōrō Electric Railway again (1936), Sangū Express (1940), Kansai Express (1941) and finally Kintetsu (1944). The station became unstaffed in February 2002 and rejoined an independent operator when Kintetsu split off the Yōrō Line to the new Yōrō Railway on 1 October 2007. An east-side entrance was added in 2009, and in 2017 the station building was renovated to house the Kakeisha community workshop.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Inside the renovated 2017 station building, the Kakeisha workshop sells 21-ride coupon books and hardboard admission tickets alongside one-day passes.