History
Nishi-Ōte Station opened on 8 August 1916 with the inauguration of the Iga Kidō line between Ueno-eki Renrakusho (now Iga-Ueno) and Uenomachi (now Uenoshi), in present-day Iga, Mie Prefecture. Through a succession of mergers and transfers — Iga Tetsudō, Iga Denki Tetsudō, Daiki, Sangū Kyūkō and Kansai Kyūkō — the line was absorbed into Kintetsu on 1 June 1944. Freight operations ended in October 1973. The station has been unstaffed since 15 March 2000, and on 1 October 2007 it passed with the Iga Line to the present Iga Railway. It has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic from a stub.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station fronts the old commercial district of Ueno, where shopfronts dating from before the Pacific War still line the road approaches.