History
Shioiri Station opened on 21 May 1923 as part of the Sanuki Line (later renamed the Dosan Line) when Japanese Government Railways extended the route from Tadotsu south to Sanuki-Saida. It is named after the Shioiri settlement roughly five kilometres into the mountains; according to local tradition the name was chosen as a consolation after the railway bypassed the village in favour of the Inohana Tunnel route. The station was destaffed in October 1970 and reduced to simple commissioned operation. Following the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways it came under JR Shikoku, and is now an unstaffed two-platform halt in Mannō, Kagawa Prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Local tradition holds that the station's name was awarded as consolation to the Shioiri hamlet after the railway chose the Inohana tunnel route over a station inside the village itself.