History
Tsuge Station opened on 19 February 1890 with the extension of the private Kansai Railway from Mikumo, making it the oldest railway station in Mie Prefecture. The Kansai Railway continued eastward to Yokkaichi later the same year, and a branch to Ueno opened in January 1897, making Tsuge the junction it remains today. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1907; under the 1909 line-name system, the Yokkaichi and Ueno routes became the Kansai Main Line and the Mikumo route became the Kusatsu Line. Freight handling ended in April 1972, and the station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987. ICOCA acceptance reached the Kansai Main Line side in March 2021.
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
A brick lamp shed built when the line opened in 1890 still stands beside the station building, and the platform footings are laid in French-bond brickwork dating to the same year.