History
Ichinobe Station opened on 29 December 1913 as a station of the Kōnan Railway in what is now Higashiōmi, Shiga Prefecture. Through a series of corporate transfers it passed to Biwako Tetsudō Kisen in May 1927, to the Yōkaichi Railway in April 1929, and finally to the Ohmi Railway in March 1944, on whose Yōkaichi Line (now branded the Man'yō Akane Line) it remains. A new station building with a passing loop was completed in 1996, after which the station was de-staffed. The two-platform layout includes an inbound track that can be used in either direction, allowing it to serve as a turnback point during incidents on the line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.