Seki (Mie)

History

Seki Station opened on 25 December 1890 as a general station when the Kansai Railway was extended from Yokkaichi to Tsuge. The Kansai Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1907, and the 1909 line-name rationalisation made the station part of the Kansai Main Line. Freight operations were discontinued on 1 April 1972, and the station was left unstaffed from 1 April 1983. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. ICOCA service began on 13 March 2021. Two side platforms serve two tracks with a roofless footbridge linking them, and the station building shares premises with the Seki-juku Furusato Hall and the Kameyama Tourism Association.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The station building shares premises with Seki-juku Furusato Hall, the Kameyama Tourism Association's office for the preserved Edo-era post-town of Seki-juku just north of the tracks.