History
Itano Station opened on 15 February 1923 as Awa-Ōdera Station, an intermediate stop on a new line laid by the privately operated Awa Electric Railway (later the Awa Railway) between Ikenotani and Kajiyabara. After nationalisation on 1 July 1933 it became Banzai Station on the Awa Line; on 20 March 1935 it joined the new Kōtoku Main Line, with the branch to Kajiyabara becoming the separate Kajiyabara Line. That branch was closed during 1943–1947 and again permanently on 16 January 1972. The station was renamed Itano Station on 10 April 1956, and passed to JR Shikoku with the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station has carried three different names — Awa-Ōdera, Banzai, and Itano — and was for several decades the junction with the now-vanished Kajiyabara Line.