History
Minose Station opened on 26 April 1932 as the terminus of the Japanese Government Railways Kisei East Line, in what is today the town of Kihoku, Mie Prefecture. When the line was extended to Owase on 19 December 1934, the station became an intermediate stop. On 15 July 1959 the route was renamed the Kisei Main Line under Japanese National Railways. The station has been unstaffed since 21 December 1983 and passed to JR Central at the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation. It is located 105.9 kilometres from the line origin at Kameyama. The original station building was demolished and replaced with a simple building on the same site, with two opposed side platforms linked by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
On 25 July 1945 a pair of trains halted at Minose were strafed by Allied aircraft; one of the timbers from the station building, pierced by the gunfire, was preserved and is held at the Kiinagashima Town local-history museum.