History
Ieki Station opened on 11 September 1931 as the terminus of the Ministry of Railways' Meishō Line, extended from Iseki. It remained the line terminus until 5 December 1935, when the route was pushed onward to Ise-Okitsu. Freight operations ended on 1 April 1963 and parcels on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR Central at the 1987 privatisation of JNR. From 8 October 2009 to 26 March 2016 the section beyond Ieki to Ise-Okitsu was closed after Typhoon Melor damaged the track, and a substitute bus operated. Until 26 January 2004 the station used JR Central's last semaphore signals.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until January 2004, Ieki used JR Central's very last semaphore signals; once decommissioned, the equipment was donated to Sangi Railway and re-erected at Agaki Station on that line's Hokusei Line.