Ichishi Station
railway station in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Ichishi Station (一志駅, Ichishi-eki) is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai).
Lines
Ichishi Station is served by the Meishō Line, and is 13.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Matsusaka Station.
Station layout
The station consists of a single side platform serving one bi-directional track. The station is unattended.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Ichishi Station was opened on January 20, 1930, as Ise-Tajiri Station (伊勢田尻駅, Ise-Tajiri-eki) on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), which became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. On October 1, 1968, the station was rebuilt 300 meters closer to Matsusaka Station, and renamed to its present name. Freight operations were discontinued in February 1984. Along with its division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the Central Japan Railway Company.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 109 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ichishi Station” as railway station in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4559540. Authority coordinates are 34.655, 136.436. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1968, 1984 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ichishi Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.