History
Shimagahara Station opened on 11 November 1897 as a general (passenger and freight) station of the Kansai Railway, when the company extended its line from Ueno (today's Iga-Ueno) to Kamo. The Kansai Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1907, and the station became part of the Imperial Government Railways' Kansai Line on 12 October 1909. Freight traffic ended on 1 August 1970, and the station was destaffed on 1 April 1983. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. ICOCA IC-card service began on 13 March 2021, and on 1 July of the same year the Kameyama Rail Operations Office was abolished, with operating functions reorganised to the Kameyama Train Crew Section, Suita General Rolling Stock Office's Kyoto Sub-base Kameyama Detachment, and the Kameyama Operations Command.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The former Shimagahara village (now part of Iga) was once home to so many Japanese National Railways employees that the area earned the nickname "railway village" (鉄道村). The station is a simple commission station; no ticket machines are installed, and tickets are issued only by POS terminal at the staffed window.