History
Iga-Kambe Station opened on 10 October 1930 with the Sangu Express Electric Railway's Haibara to Iga-Kambe section, replacing the original Shoda Station that had stood several hundred metres away on the old Iga Electric Railway since 18 July 1922. Mergers in 1941 and 1944 brought it under the Kansai Express Railway and then Kintetsu. The Iga-Kambe to Nishi-Nabari segment of the Iga Line was suspended in June 1945 and reopened in March 1946. The closure of the Iga-Kambe to Mihata section on 1 October 1964 made the station the terminus of the Kintetsu Iga Line. On 1 October 2007 the Iga Line was spun off as the new Iga Railway, making Iga-Kambe a jointly-operated station with Kintetsu.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kintetsu station signs usually shrink the old-province prefix, but Iga-Kambe keeps "Iga" rendered at full size to distinguish the station from the older Ise-Kambe Station (now Suzuka-shi), which also used to bear a "Kambe" name.