History
Minakuchi Ishibashi Station opened on 16 August 1957 on the Ohmi Railway Main Line in what is now the city of Kōka, Shiga Prefecture. The station is located 44.4 rail kilometers from the line's terminus at Maibara and serves the older town centre of Minakuchi. It consists of a single side platform on one bi-directional track and is unstaffed. The station carries the line identifier OR35, sitting between Minakuchi (OR34) and Minakuchi Jōnan (OR36). In fiscal 2016 it averaged about 60 passengers a day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station takes its name from a small stone bridge on the old Tōkaidō highway that crosses just north of the platform, rather than from any feature of the modern town.