History
Ukui Station opened on 4 December 1912 as Ugui Station on the private Shingu Railway, with the spelling reflecting the local pronunciation of the surrounding place name. The Shingu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1934, at which point the reading was changed to the modern "Ukui". The route became the Kisei West Line in 1940 and the Kisei Main Line in July 1959. Freight handling ended in February 1962, parcel handling in April 1978, and the station was destaffed on 14 March 1985. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station passed to JR West, and ICOCA acceptance began on 13 March 2021 via on-board card readers.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the station's name was officially re-read as "Ukui" on nationalisation in 1934, the village place name is still read "Ugui" by locals today — a 90-year split between the station sign and the address.