History
Ise-Kawashima Station (K24) is on Kintetsu's Yunoyama Line in Kawashima-chō, Yokkaichi, Mie. It opened on 1 June 1913 as Kawashima-mura Station, the western terminus of the Yokkaichi Railway when the line ran only between Kawashima-mura and Yunoyama; an eastward extension to Suwa (today Kintetsu-Yokkaichi) on 24 September 1913 made it an intermediate stop. Its name was changed to Ise-Kawashima Station in July 1954. After successive ownership changes to Mie Railway (1931), Mie Kōtsū (1944), Mie Electric Railway (1964) and Kintetsu (1965), the track was regauged from 762 mm to 1,435 mm and electrified at 1,500 V DC on 1 March 1964. A new overhead concourse station building opened on 21 December 1976. The station became unstaffed in October 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Ise-Kawashima opened in 1913 as the western terminus of the Yokkaichi Railway — the original 762 mm-gauge predecessor to today's standard-gauge Yunoyama Line — and was the line's starting point until the line was extended east to today's Kintetsu-Yokkaichi later the same year.