History
Yokkaichi Station opened on 25 December 1890 as the eastern terminus of the privately built Kansai Railway extension from Tsuge. The Kansai Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1907 and the station became part of the government railway network. A new station building was completed on 3 November 1913, and a freight branch to Yokkaichi Port opened in December 1920. The 1956 rerouting of Kintetsu's Nagoya Line abolished the adjacent private terminus, and from then on the station handled JR-side traffic only. A new station building opened in 2012. JR Central succeeded JNR on 1 April 1987, and in March 2018 the station was assigned number CJ11 (later CI11 on JR Central's section), with TOICA IC ticketing extended toward Kameyama in March 2019. Full unstaffing is scheduled for March 2027.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Among Yokkaichi Station's surviving freight infrastructure is the Suehiro Bridge on the branch to the former Yokkaichi Port Station: a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, it is the only operational movable railway bridge still in service anywhere in Japan.