History
Ushinoshima Station opened on 16 February 1899 under the privately run Tokushima Railway as an intermediate stop between Tokushima and Kamojima, in what is now Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture. The original spelling of the station name was "Ushi-no-shima" (牛ノ島), changed at an undocumented later date to today's "Ushinoshima" (牛島). The Tokushima Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1907, after which Japanese Government Railways and then JNR ran the station as part of the Tokushima Line. The station was destaffed on 1 April 1983, briefly restored to direct operation from March 1988, and destaffed again on 1 September 2010. JR Shikoku has run the station since the 1987 privatisation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Tokushima Line's upgrade for higher-speed running between Sako and Kamojima made Ushinoshima a "one-line through" station like Ishii: its 2-Line platform tracks at the line's 90 km/h limit, though local trains usually keep to the station-side 1-Line.