History
Ise-Nakagawa Station, a major junction on the Kintetsu network in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, opened on 18 May 1930 as Sankyū-Nakagawa Station of the Sangu Express Railway. After mergers it received the name Ise-Nakagawa on 15 March 1941, when reorganisation of the lines made it the meeting point of the Osaka Line (terminating here), the Yamada Line, and the Nagoya Line (both starting here). The Nagoya Line was regauged to 1,435 mm on 27 November 1959, enabling through running with the other two trunks. A chord track allowing through limited expresses between the Osaka and Nagoya Lines to bypass the station opened on 29 March 1961, with a replacement chord put into service on 21 January 2012. The station building was rebuilt underground with automatic ticket gates on 10 January 2004, and PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Three of the station's six tracks (2, 3 and 4) serve trains opening their doors on both sides, allowing cross-platform transfers between the Osaka, Nagoya and Yamada Lines.