History
Ōizumi Station (H10) is on the Sangi Railway Hokusei Line in Ōizumi, Inabe-chō, Inabe, Mie, 12.4 km from the line's terminus at Nishi-Kuwana. It opened on 1 April 2004 — proposed after Sangi Railway took over operation of the Hokusei Line — when the former Ōizumi-higashi and Naga-miya stations were consolidated at a new mid-point site, with the official record showing Ōizumi-higashi abolished and Naga-miya renamed Ōizumi and moved. The adjoining "Fureai-no-Eki Uribō" farmers' market opened beside the new station in June 2004, and Inabe City received a 4th Japan Rail Awards Special Prize for the station's design in October 2005. A passing loop was added on 1 July 2005, expanding the platform from one-side to an island layout, and the station became fully unstaffed on 10 January 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Ōizumi's car park is the largest on the Hokusei Line (140 spaces) and second only to Akatsuki Gakuen-mae's 180 spaces in the entire Sangi Railway network — sized this way because the station was deliberately built as a park-and-ride consolidation point for two former adjacent stations.