History
Maruyama Station opened on 18 July 1922 with the extension of the (old) Iga Railway between Ueno-machi (now Uenoshi) and Nabari (later Nishi-Nabari). The operator was renamed Iga Electric Railway on 19 December 1926; a 31 March 1929 merger transferred the line to Osaka Electric Tramway's Iga Line; a 26 September 1931 line-transfer made it part of Sangu Express Electric Railway; and on 15 March 1941 Osaka Electric Tramway absorbed Sangu Express to form Kansai Express Railway. A wartime merger on 1 June 1944 produced Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu). At around 10 am on 8 August 1945, an Uenoshi-bound two-car train on the bridge approximately 150 m south of the station was strafed by a US aircraft, killing twelve people including a woman conductor and seriously or lightly wounding twenty-three. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1973, and the station became unstaffed on 15 March 2000. On 1 October 2007 the Iga Line was spun off operationally from Kintetsu, and the station became part of the new Iga Railway. On 18 November 2020 the subtitle 'Kunoichi Ground-mae' was added in an unveiling ceremony.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Maruyama is an unstaffed surface station with one island platform serving two tracks, with passing capability and a two-car effective platform length; the station building sits west of the platform but does not collect tickets, and a level crossing inside the station connects the building to the platform. The subtitle 'Kunoichi Ground-mae' refers to the practice ground of Iga FC Kunoichi Mie (a women's football club). When the former Iga City Maruyama Junior High School north of the station closed in March 2012, the club received the site rent-free from Iga City in April 2014 and converted the entire field to natural turf at its own expense.