History
Fukata Station opened on 18 October 1914 as a through-station on the narrow-gauge Uwajima Railway, the line that ran inland from Uwajima. Located in Kihoku, Kitauwa District, Ehime Prefecture, the station is 62.5 km from the start of the present Yodo Line at Wakai and carries the station number G41. After the Uwajima Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1933 control passed to Japanese Government Railways and then to Japanese National Railways. Freight handling ended on 1 June 1970 and parcel handling on 8 November 1971, when the station became unstaffed. JR Shikoku took over at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Today the station is a simple side platform with a small shelter, parking and a bicycle shed; six steps up from the road mean the platform is not wheelchair-accessible.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.