History
Ichitsubo Station opened on 1 October 1964 as a permanent stop on the existing Yosan Line, replacing a long-running temporary halt (Tsubaki-no-miya Kari-Jōkōjō) that had been set up annually since 1933 to handle pilgrims for the Tsubaki Shrine festival. Operated by Japanese National Railways, it transferred to JR Shikoku on 1 April 1987 with privatization. In July 2002 a capacity-expansion project converted the layout into a two-platform passing station and gave the stop the nickname "No-Ball Station" (野球駅), playing on the childhood name of the haiku poet Masaoka Shiki. The station is unstaffed and the platforms run on an embankment over a river bridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The nickname "No-Ball Station" puns on the childhood name Noboru of Matsuyama-born haiku poet Masaoka Shiki, fitting because the station serves the nearby Botchan Stadium baseball complex.