History
Iyo-Ōzu Station opened on 14 February 1918 as the terminus Ōzu of the private Ehime Railway, a 762 mm narrow-gauge light railway running from Wakamiya Junction near Nagahama-machi. After the railway was nationalised on 1 October 1933, the station was renamed Iyo-Ōzu and incorporated into the Ehime Line. The track was re-gauged to 1,067 mm on 6 October 1935, and the station became part of the Yosan Main Line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Shikoku. It now serves as a junction between the older Iyonada coastal branch and the newer inland Uchiko branch, and carries both station numbers S18 and U14.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On 20 March 1950 an Imperial train carrying Emperor Hirohito stopped at the station for five minutes during his postwar tour, with a welcome reception held on the platform.