History
Ōtera Station opened on 1 February 1931 as a station on the Ichibata Electric Railway's Kita-Matsue Line. It is an unstaffed halt with a single side platform and only a small shelter on the platform, located in the city of Izumo, Shimane Prefecture. The station is 6.4 km from the line's terminus at Dentetsu-Izumoshi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's name comes from the nearby Ōtera Yakushi temple, one of the area's most prominent old Buddhist sites; despite the temple's renown, the station itself records very modest passenger numbers.