History
Tomari Station is on the Yokkaichi Asunarō Railway Utsube Line in Tomari-chō, Yokkaichi, Mie. It opened on 10 January 1922 with the Mie Railway's Hinaga–Kogoso extension, passed to Mie Kōtsū (Sanco) on 11 February 1944, to Mie Electric Railway on 1 February 1964 and to Kintetsu on 1 April 1965; on 1 April 2015 it was transferred to Yokkaichi Asunarō Railway with Yokkaichi City taking ownership of the station premises. A passing loop was added in November 1956, and on 21 August 2021 the station began accepting the ICOCA card. Tomari is an island-platform two-track ground station with a three-car effective platform length, unstaffed but managed remotely from Asunarō-Yokkaichi.
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
Trains at Tomari run right-hand instead of left-hand — a one-off change made in 1989 when the Utsube Line was upgraded to single-track automatic block signalling — so meeting trains here pass on the opposite side compared to the rest of the line.