History
Minami-Itō Station opened on 10 December 1961 as one of the original intermediate stops on the Izu Kyūkō Line, a private route built southward from Itō along the eastern Izu peninsula. The station is 2.0 rail kilometres from Itō Station, sits on a single elevated island platform with the station building underneath, and remains staffed. The line's construction-era working name for the stop was Izu-Kamata Station before it took its present form at opening. It carries station number IZ02. Simple IC card top-up machines are installed for Suica/PASMO users among the line's nine such locations.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Minami-Itō is the only Izu Kyūkō Line station where express trains pass through to an electronic-bell departure chime instead of the standard whistle.