History
Futaminoura Station opened on 21 July 1911 on the Railway Agency's Sangū Line, between today's Iseshi and Toba, in present-day Ise, Mie Prefecture. A wooden station building was completed in July 1942. Freight operations ended in January 1961, and partial-commission staffing was adopted in December 1983. The station passed to JR Central with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. A glass-fronted station building designed to evoke the Wedded Rocks was completed in February 1993, and the station was fully de-staffed on 1 April 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1993 station building was designed to echo the silhouette of the nearby Wedded Rocks (Meoto Iwa), the sacred sea stones from which the station and surrounding district take their name.