History
Shingū Station opened on 1 March 1913 as the terminus of the Shingu Railway in what is now the city of Shingū, Wakayama Prefecture. The railway was nationalized on 1 July 1934, and on 20 May 1938 the station was relocated 40 metres south of its original site. The station building burned down on 21 January 1951 after a fire started in the checked-luggage room. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station was jointly assigned to JR West and JR Freight; freight operations ended on 16 March 1996. The station today is the boundary between JR West and JR Central on the Kisei Main Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Shingū is the boundary between JR West and JR Central on the Kisei Main Line: electrification ends at the station, and a sign at the north portal of the Tankaku tunnel marks the operational frontier.