History
The present Shijuku Station opened on 17 March 2018 as a new station on the Iga Railway Iga Line, in Iga, Mie Prefecture. An earlier station of the same name had stood about 300 metres south from 18 July 1922 until services were suspended in June 1945 and the station was formally abolished on 15 May 1969. In 2014 the local Shijuku-cho residents' association petitioned for a new station, which was approved by the Iga city council. Construction began in July 2017 at a cost of around 246 million yen, and a sub-name of "Aeon Town Iga-Ueno-mae" was added at an unveiling in June 2019. The station has a single 47-metre side platform with a barrier-free slope, and serves roughly 90 boardings per day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original Shijuku Station was read "Shijuuku" with a long vowel; the modern revival uses the short-vowel reading "Shijuku".