History
Higashi-Ishinden Station opened on 1 September 1973 as an unattended passenger-only stop on the Japanese National Railways Ise Line. Its working name during construction had been "Senshū-ji Station" after the nearby Senshū-ji temple, but JNR's policy of not assigning religious-institution names to its stations led to the present locality-based name. The Ise Line was privatised to the third-sector Ise Railway on 27 March 1987, four days before the dissolution of JNR on 1 April 1987, and the station has remained under Ise Railway management since. The station has a single side platform on an elevated alignment, with bi-directional service on a single track, and is unattended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station was the location of TV-Asahi's 2011 mystery drama "Tetsudo Sōsa-kan: Ise Tetsudō Hikikaesenai Tansen Ressha kara no Dasshutsu Trick" ("Railway Investigator: Escape Trick from a No-Going-Back Single-Track Train"), starring Yasuko Sawaguchi, which aired on 30 April 2011. It sits between the Shitomo River and the Kintetsu Nagoya Line's Takada Honzan Station and the JR Kisei Line's Ichishi-den Station, in an area mixing housing and farmland with soy-sauce breweries.