History
Ishii Station opened on 16 February 1899 as a station on the privately run Tokushima Railway between Tokushima and Kamojima. When the company was nationalised in 1907 the line became part of the Japanese Government Railways system. Automatic ticket machines arrived on 1 April 1983, and with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Shikoku. From 1 March 1994 it became unstaffed on weekends; some limited expresses began stopping from 1 March 2005. Weekday hours were reduced in October 2019, and from 16 March 2024 the station became unstaffed all day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Ishii is the busiest station on JR Shikoku's Tokushima Line, exceeding even the main station of Kamojima. The footbridge connecting its two platforms dates from 1915 and bears the imperial Railway Bureau (Tetsudōin) stamp on its columns.