History
Izumi-Tottori Station opened on 1 April 1963 as an infill stop on the JNR Hanwa Line between Izumi-Sunagawa and Yamanaka-dani, with construction funded in full by locally subscribed development bonds. The station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened on 1 November 1992, IC card (ICOCA) acceptance began on 1 November 2003, and a new east entrance opened on 25 March 2017. Station numbering JR-R49 was assigned in March 2018, and the Midori no Madoguchi closed on 12 March 2021, leaving the east entrance unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Construction of the station in the early 1960s was paid for entirely by local-government bonds — a rare arrangement in which the surrounding municipality, rather than JNR, financed the new stop.