History
Edobashi Station opened on 1 January 1917 as a single-platform stop on the Ise Railway in what is now Tsu, Mie Prefecture, sited roughly 100 m south of its present location. Through successive mergers it became part of Ise Electric Railway in 1926, Sangū Express Electric Railway in 1936, Kansai Express Railway’s Nagoya Line in 1941 and finally Kintetsu in 1944. From the line's opening until the regauging of December 1938, it functioned as the interchange between the standard-gauge Tsu Line and the narrow-gauge Nagoya–Ise Main Line. The truncated Ise Line south of the station closed entirely in January 1961, ending Edobashi’s role as a transfer point. In June 1959 the station was relocated 100 m north to its current position, and over-the-counter ticket service ended on 21 September 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station is named after the Edobashi bridge on the nearby Shitomo River, where the Ise Highway and Ise-Betsu Highway diverge beside a still-standing stone night lantern.