History
Iyo-Wake Station opened on 3 April 1927 as an intermediate stop when the Sanyo Line (the predecessor name applied to part of today's Yosan Line) was extended from Iyo-Hōjō to Matsuyama under Japanese Government Railways. It later passed to Japanese National Railways and, on 1 April 1987, to JR Shikoku at privatisation. The original station building burned down on 11 April 1988 — reportedly from a passenger's discarded cigarette — and the present building opened on 21 November 1990. Freight handling on a dedicated Iseki Agricultural Machinery siding ended in 1982, and parcel service ceased in 1985 when the station became unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When the current station building was completed in 1990 it housed a JR Shikoku-direct Japanese restaurant; an okonomiyaki shop occupied the space from January 2018 to December 2023, and an izakaya named "70 (NANAMARU)" moved in from January 2024.