History
Shima-Shimmei Station opened on 23 July 1929 on the Shima Electric Railway, then a private operator running through the Shima Peninsula. Under wartime consolidation, the line was merged into Mie Kotsu on 11 February 1944, one of six private railways folded together by government order. When Mie Kotsu's railway business was spun off on 1 February 1964, the station passed to the Mie Electric Railway, which was in turn acquired by Kintetsu on 1 April 1965. The line was regauged to standard gauge in March 1970 after a 1969 service suspension for upgrade works, and the section between Shima-Shimmei and Kashikojima was double-tracked on 8 December 1990.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
At the 2016 G7 Ise-Shima Summit the line between Ugata and Kashikojima was suspended for one week; trains still passed Shima-Shimmei deadheading to the terminus, and a Foreign Ministry shuttle bus stop was set up roughly 300 m southeast of the station.