History
Ukai Station opened on 21 July 1914 as the Ukai Stop on the Ryōbi Light Railway, the predecessor of the Fukuen Line. The operator was renamed Ryōbi Railway in 1926, and on 12 January 1923 the stop was upgraded to a full station. Nationalisation on 1 September 1933 placed the Ryōbi-Fukuyama-to-Fuchūmachi section under the Railway Ministry's Fukuen Line, and a renaming that November folded it into the southern Fukuen Line, then unified into the present Fukuen Line on 28 July 1938 when the Fukuyama-to-Shiomachi route opened end to end. Freight ended in 1952 and the station became a simplified-contract operation in 1970. JR West succeeded JNR on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.