History
Muya Station opened on 1 July 1916 as the terminus of the privately run Awa Electric Railway (later Awa Railway) line from Ikenotani, in what is today the city of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture. When the line was extended further northeast on 18 January 1928, the new terminus inherited the Muya name and the original station was renamed Ebisumae. Nationalisation on 1 July 1933 brought the station under the Japanese Government Railways and later JNR; on 1 August 1948 it reclaimed its present name when the further station became Naruto. With the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation the station passed to JR Shikoku as station N09 of the Naruto Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station gave up and reclaimed its name within twenty years — first becoming Ebisumae in 1928 when a new terminus took the Muya name, then reverting to Muya in 1948 after the further station was renamed Naruto, leaving the original Muya the only stop on the line still called by that name.