History
Nakagawara Station (K22) is on Kintetsu's Yunoyama Line in Nakagawara 2-chōme, Yokkaichi, Mie. It opened on 24 September 1913 when the Yokkaichi Railway extended its line eastwards from Kawashima-mura (today Ise-Kawashima) to Suwa (today Kintetsu-Yokkaichi). On 23 September 1956 the section between Suwa and Nakagawara was switched onto a new alignment as part of the Nagoya Line route revision around Yokkaichi (the Suwa terminus moved onto the new line and was renamed Kinki-Nippon Yokkaichi, becoming Kintetsu-Yokkaichi in 1970). Following the 1964 regauging to 1,435 mm and 1,500 V DC electrification, passing-loop equipment was added on 23 March 1964. Kintetsu took over the line on 1 April 1965; full unstaffing took effect in October 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Because Nakagawara uses a one-track-through arrangement (1番線 serves as both up and down main), after the station was unstaffed in 2012 all trains stop on platform 1 except when a meet is scheduled — at which point down trains stay on 1 and up trains use 2, producing left-hand running.