Hataki

History

Hataki Station opened on 14 February 1918 as an intermediate stop on the privately run 762 mm gauge Ehime Railway between Nagahama-machi (now Iyo-Nagahama) and Ōzu (now Iyo-Ōzu), in the city of Ōzu, Ehime Prefecture. The Ehime Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1933, with Japanese Government Railways re-designating it as the Ehime Line. After regauging to 1,067 mm and the opening of a new alignment between Kitanada and Iyo-Nagahama, the Iyo-Nagahama to Iyo-Ōzu stretch was absorbed into the Yosan Main Line on 6 October 1935, and Hataki was simultaneously relocated to its present site. Freight ended in 1970 and the station was unstaffed in November 1971. JR Shikoku took over at JNR privatisation in April 1987.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

From 1986 onwards every long-distance limited express on the Yosan Line shifted onto a new inland Mukaibara-Uchiko cutoff, leaving Hataki and the coastal alignment as a quiet branch — the express trains that once raced past Hataki without stopping had run through it for almost half a century before the bypass opened.