History
Seto-Shiyakusho-mae Station opened on 2 April 1905 as Oiwake Station on the privately operated Seto Electric Railway. The Seto Electric Railway was absorbed into the Meitetsu group on 1 September 1939, and the station took its present name on 20 January 1958 in recognition of its proximity to Seto City Hall. It was promoted to an express stop on 29 January 2005, and the Tranpass magnetic-fare system was introduced on 16 December 2006 in tandem with a centralised station management system. The station has been unattended since opening, with separate small structures built on each platform side at the time of the 2006 retrofit; Manaca IC ticketing began on 11 February 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Because the down-line platform is unusually narrow, part of the platform was carved away in 2006 to fit the new Tranpass turnstile building, leaving the up-side ticket gate without an automatic fare adjustment machine.