History
Uno Station opened on 12 June 1910 as the terminus of the JNR Uno Line, in present-day Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, simultaneously serving as the rail end of the Uno-Takamatsu (Ukō) ferry route across the Seto Inland Sea. The Uno Line was electrified on 1 October 1960. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the line passed to JR West while the ferry was transferred to JR Shikoku; the ferry and connecting hovercraft were withdrawn on 9 April 1988, the day before the Great Seto Bridge opened. A new station building was relocated inland on 3 December 1994, reducing operating distance by 0.1 kilometre. ICOCA support began on 16 March 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After the 2010 Setouchi International Art Festival made nearby Naoshima a destination for art tourists, the Uno Line station building was repainted in 2016 with a design by Italian artist Esther Stocker as part of the festival's "JR Uno Minato Line Art Project."