History
Aoyamachō Station opened on 19 November 1930 as Ao Station on the Sangu Express Electric Railway, sited in present-day Iga, Mie Prefecture. The line passed to Kansai Express Railway through a 1941 merger with Osaka Electric Railway, and on 1 June 1944 to Kintetsu Railway following a further consolidation with Nankai. Double tracking from Iga-Kambe was completed between 1960 and 1961, and the station was renamed Aoyamachō on 1 March 1970. A 1991 rebuild gave the station two island platforms and four tracks accommodating ten-car formations, and the adjoining Aoyama-chō depot opened in 1998. It now serves as the principal Osaka-bound turnback point on the eastern Osaka Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Even after Naga County's Aoyama Town was merged into the city of Iga in 2004 — abolishing the place name — the station retained "Aoyamachō" in its title.