History
Umegadani Station is on the JR Central Kisei Main Line in Ōuchiyama, Taiki, Watarai District, Mie Prefecture, 89.5 km from the line's origin at Kameyama. The Tennōji Railway Bureau began planning passing facilities in the early 1960s ahead of the 1 March 1965 launch of the limited express "Kuroshio" between Tennōji and Nagoya, and decided to place one on the longest unbroken segment of the Kisei Main Line — the 11.5 km gap between Ōuchiyama and Kii-Nagashima. The site opened as Umegadani Signal Station on 27 February 1965, was promoted to a passenger station on 1 November 1965 in response to local petitions from Ōuchiyama village, was unstaffed on 21 December 1983 and passed to JR Central on 1 April 1987 with the JNR privatisation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Umegadani serves as the trailhead for the Kumano Kodō Iseji's Nisaka and Tsuzurato Pass routes — a heritage hiking corridor crossing the Kii-Nagashima Pass that historically marked the boundary between Ise and Kii provinces — and selected southbound "Nanki" limited expresses make a temporary stop here to serve hikers.