History
Kawarada Station opened on 25 December 1890 as a general station on the Kansai Railway during its extension from Yokkaichi to Tsuge. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1907 and the station building was rebuilt in December 1915. Freight handling ended in 1960 and parcels in 1974, when the station became unstaffed. On 1 September 1973 the new Japanese National Railways Ise Line branched away just north of the station; this line was hived off to the third-sector Ise Railway on 27 March 1987, making Kawarada a junction shared by JNR and the new operator just four days before JNR's own privatisation on 1 April 1987. The current simplified station building dates from March 2003; TOICA IC card service began on 2 March 2019 on the JR portion only.
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
Although Kawarada is officially the terminus of the Ise Railway, most Ise trains continue through onto JR's Kansai Main Line all the way to Yokkaichi Station rather than turning back at the junction.