History
Hitsu Station opened on 5 December 1935 as a simple, unstaffed halt on the Japanese Government Railways Meishō Line when the section between Ieki and Ise-Okitsu was opened to traffic. Local residents lobbied for the stop, built a station building themselves, and donated it to the railway in August 1947, after which two staff were assigned from 1 October 1947. Staffing ended again in December 1951 when baggage handling was abolished. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station became part of JR Tōkai. After Typhoon Melor damaged the line in October 2009 it was bus-replaced until rail service resumed on 26 March 2016. The old wooden waiting room was replaced in autumn 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building exists at all because villagers of the former Hachi-mura raised the money to construct it themselves and donated the finished structure to the railway ministry in August 1947.