History
The site of today's Matsugasaki Station was first served on 1 April 1930 when Ise Electric Railway opened Tsu-Shinchi - Shin-Matsusaka without a station here, followed on 18 May 1930 by Sangū Express Railway opening Matsusaka - Sangū-Nakagawa - Hisai with a station called Sangū-Matsue about 0.4 km Matsusaka-side. The two routes crossed at this location but neither initially had a stop. After Sangū absorbed the struggling Ise Electric Railway in September 1936, a new shared station — Matsugasaki — was opened at the level-crossing point on 3 November 1937, and Sangū-Matsue was closed the same day. Through a 15 March 1941 merger the station joined Kansai Express Railway as a stop on its Yamada Line and Ise Line, and on 1 June 1944 it became part of Kintetsu. The connecting Ise Line was abolished on 22 January 1961, leaving Matsugasaki on the Yamada Line alone. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007 and the station was made permanently unstaffed on 21 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the station address is in Kume-cho (former Mikumo town), the station's land also extends into Tsukamoto-cho (Matsusaka), and the prefectural road that overpasses the station — Mie Prefecture Route 756, known locally as the "Kintetsu Road" — is a vestige of the former Kintetsu Ise Line.