History
Higashi-Shinkawa Station opened on 1923-08-01 with the extension of the Ube Railway from Tokonami to Ube-Shinkawa, in what is now Higashi-Shinkawa-chō, Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The Ube Railway was nationalised on 1943-05-01, becoming the Ube Higashi Line, which was renamed the Ube Line on 1948-02-01. Freight handling ended in 1971, the building was rebuilt on 1979-04-05, and parcels ended in 1984. JR West took over at the 1987 privatisation. The station was contracted to JR West's Hiroshima maintenance subsidiary in 2002 and to Ube City's Silver Human Resources Centre that year for weekday-only staffing, before being destaffed entirely in September 2012. A second "Tennis-Court Exit" station building on the east side opened on 2011-10-01, sharing the access with the adjoining Chūō Park.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The east "Tennis-Court Exit" was opened on 2011-10-01 to give residents on the east side direct access to the station and to Chūō Park, which hosted the soft-tennis events of the 66th National Sports Festival.