History
Kii-Ichigi Station opened on 8 August 1940 as a stop on Japanese Government Railways' Kisei-Nishi Line when the route was extended south from Shingū toward Kii-Kimoto (today Kumano-shi). The line was redesignated the Kisei Main Line on 15 July 1959 in a nationwide route consolidation. Freight handling ended on 15 October 1972, and the station has been unstaffed since 21 December 1983. Operation passed to JR Central on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The original station building was demolished in late 2015 and replaced in February 2016 by a simpler waiting-room structure that the station retains today.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station sits noticeably higher than National Route 42 and the village it serves below; passengers waiting on the platform have an unobstructed view down across the Shimoichigi settlement.