History
Shiraki Station opened on 23 July 1929 with the Shima Electric Railway's Toba–Shinjuko line. It passed to the wartime Mie Kōtsū on 11 February 1944, to the spin-off Mie Electric Railway on 1 February 1964, and to Kintetsu by merger on 1 April 1965. Service was suspended in December 1969 for re-construction; on 1 March 1970 the rebuilt station reopened on a new 1,435 mm-gauge alignment some 100 m east of its original site. The Kamo–Gochi section was double-tracked on 11 September 1993 via the new Aomine Tunnel. The stop has been unattended round the clock since 21 February 2005, and PiTaPa acceptance began on 1 August 2015. Shiraki is the only intermediate Shima Line station with passing tracks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shiraki is the only intermediate stop on the Shima Line where express services can be overtaken; the two through-tracks are the main line, and the platform-served outer tracks function as side-loops.