History
Ōura Station began on 21 November 1990 as Ōura Signal Box, a JR Shikoku block post on the Yosan Line between Asanami and Iyo-Hōjō. Only a few months later, on 16 March 1991, it was upgraded to a passenger station serving the Matsuyama city ward of Ōura along the JR Shikoku Yosan Line at the 173.8 km point from Takamatsu. From the outset it has been an unstaffed halt with no station building, just a platform shelter, and is served exclusively by local trains running the Iyo-Saijō–Matsuyama sector; through services and limited expresses use the straight track without stopping. The station carries the JR Shikoku number Y47.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ōura's short four-car platform sits only on the loop track, so neither limited-express trains nor opposing local trains can cross here — a layout otherwise found on the Yosan Line only at Sekigawa.