History
Oiwake Station is on the Yokkaichi Asunarō Railway Utsube Line in Oiwake 3-chōme, Yokkaichi, Mie. It opened on 21 June 1922 as a station on the Mie Railway, became a Mie Kōtsū (Sanco) station on 11 February 1944, a Mie Electric Railway station on 1 February 1964, and a Kintetsu station on 1 April 1965. On 1 April 2015 it was transferred to Yokkaichi Asunarō Railway with Yokkaichi City taking ownership of the station premises, and on 21 August 2021 the ICOCA IC card was introduced. The station has a single side platform on the west side of the line and is a stub station, with both Utsube-bound and Yokkaichi-bound trains stopping at the same platform; it is unstaffed but managed remotely from Asunarō-Yokkaichi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Oiwake (追分) takes its name from the historic fork of the Tōkaidō (toward Kyoto) and the Sangū-dō (toward Ise Grand Shrine) that lies right by the station — the literal kanji 追分 means "the place where roads part".