History
Abt Ichishiro Station opened on 1 August 1959 on the Ōigawa Railway Ikawa Line under the name Kawane-Ichishiro, originally sited closer to Okuizumi. On 2 October 1990 the station was relocated to a newly built section of line that bypassed the area submerged by the Nagashima Dam, and at the same time was renamed Abt Ichishiro. The relocation coincided with the introduction of the Abt rack-and-pinion system on the stretch up to Nagashima Dam, where gradients reach 90 per mille; this is the only Abt-system operation currently running in Japan. The station has a single side platform and an unattended station building, and includes stabling sidings and the Ichishiro inspection shed for the Abt-system electric locomotives.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The disused tunnels along the pre-1990 route between Abt Ichishiro and Nagashima Dam have been turned into an unlit walking path nicknamed the "Mystery Tunnel"; torches were lent out locally until COVID-19 ended the service.