History
Sakura Station (Kintetsu station number K26) opened on 1 June 1913 as Sakuramura Station when the Yokkaichi Railway inaugurated the section between Kawashima-mura (today Ise-Kawashima) and Yunoyama (today Yunoyama-Onsen), in Chishaku-chō, Yokkaichi, Mie. The operator was changed to Mie Tetsudō on 1 March 1931 and to Mie Kōtsū on 11 February 1944. The station was renamed Sakura in July 1954. On 1 February 1964 it became a Mie Electric Railway station, and on 1 March 1964 the line's gauge was widened from 762 mm to 1,435 mm and the overhead voltage raised to 1,500 V DC, with the station relocated 0.2 km north during the track-shorting works. It joined the Kintetsu Yunoyama Line on 1 April 1965. An underground station building was completed on 28 August 1999 with a forecourt and station-front park added on the north side. PiTaPa support began on 1 April 2007 and automatic ticket gates were installed in October 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Sakura is the only Yunoyama Line station other than Kintetsu-Yokkaichi to have an elevator, and is one of two staffed stations on the line (the other being Kintetsu-Yokkaichi).