History
Tsu-shimmachi Station opened on 4 July 1931 as a station on the Sangū Express Electric Railway's Tsu Line when the line was extended from Hisai. On 3 April 1932 it became a through-station after the line was further extended to Tsu. The Tsu Line was renamed the Nagoya Line on 7 December 1938, and on 15 March 1941 Sangū Express merged with Osaka Electric Railway to form Kansai Express Railway; a second merger with Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1944 created Kintetsu, the present operator. A new station building with underground platform passageways opened on 13 March 1970. PiTaPa was accepted from 1 April 2007, and the station was unstaffed from 21 January 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tsu City's city hall and downtown district at Marunouchi and Daimon are closer to Tsu-shimmachi than to the representative Tsu Station on the same line.