History
Ōuchiyama Station opened on 13 November 1927 as a terminus on the Japanese Government Railways' Kisei-East Line in what is now Taiki, Mie Prefecture. The line was extended to Kii-Nagashima Station on 26 April 1929, demoting the station to an intermediate stop. After the JNR took over in the post-war reorganisation, the line was redesignated as the Kisei Main Line on 15 July 1959, and freight handling ceased in 1972. The station has been unstaffed since 21 December 1983, and on 1 April 1987 it was transferred to JR Central as part of national-railway privatisation. The original wooden building was demolished and a new shelter completed in 2002.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Before the station was unstaffed in 1983, attendants would rake the gravel of the platforms into patterns reminiscent of the dry-landscape garden at Ryōan-ji, a quirk shared only with Mayuki Station on the Hisatsu Line.