History
Shiroko Station opened on 10 September 1915 as a station on the Ise Railway, and was renamed to its present form on 1 October 1922. Through successive mergers the line became the Sangu Express Electric Railway's Ise Line in 1936, was rebranded the Nagoya Line in 1938, and entered the Kansai Express Railway in 1941 before that company merged with the Nankai Electric Railway in 1944 to form Kintetsu. A new station building opened on 20 December 1979, and an elevated overpass-style structure now spans two ground-level island platforms serving four tracks. Almost all Kintetsu Nagoya Line trains stop at Shiroko, the busiest station in Suzuka city.
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
When the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix runs at Suzuka Circuit, extra Kintetsu trains terminate and originate at Shiroko to handle the spectator traffic.