Haruka

History

Japanese National Railways opened the present Haruka Station on 20 October 1961 as an added stop on the existing Yosan Line, in the city of Ōzu, Ehime Prefecture. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Shikoku and was eventually given the station number S16. The current platform sits on the older, coastal Mukaibara-to-Iyo-Ōzu branch of the Yosan Line — the line's original alignment before the 1986 Mukaibara-Uchiko cutoff diverted most through traffic inland. On 15 March 2014 the section running through Haruka was rebranded with the nickname "Ai-aru Iyo-nada Line." Haruka is unstaffed, with no station building, only a side-platform shelter.

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

Notes

An earlier and unrelated Haruka Station, opened by the Ehime Railway on 1 February 1919 between Hataki and Gorō, occupied a different site and was closed at the end of 31 August 1934 — so the current 1961 station is the second use of the name on this stretch of line.