History
Iga-Ueno Station opened on 15 January 1897 as Ueno Station, when the Kansai Railway built its line from Tsuge to here, in what is now Iga, Mie Prefecture. The railway was nationalised on 1 October 1907, and the station was renamed Iga-Ueno on 11 September 1916 to avoid confusion with Tokyo's Ueno. The connecting Iga Railway opened the present Iga Line on 8 August 1916; the operator passed through several mergers, joined Kintetsu on 1 June 1944, and was spun off again as an independent Iga Railway on 1 October 2007. Freight handling at the JR side ended on 1 February 1984, and on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West with the JNR privatisation. ICOCA was accepted from 13 March 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Iga-Ueno is the only directly-operated JR West station on the unelectrified middle section of the Kansai Main Line (Kameyama to Kamo) - and one ticket gate handles both JR and the independent Iga Railway, whose station signs even carry the JR Kansai Line colour.