Ichitsubo

Weekday departures: 50/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 50/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:28 / 23:41

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Yosan Line: one direction only
• Yosan Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Yosan Line: Matsuyama (Ehime) ⇄ Kita-Iyo

Ichitsubo Station opened on 1 October 1964 as a permanent stop on the existing Yosan Line, replacing a long-running temporary halt (Tsubaki-no-miya Kari-Jōkōjō) that had been set up annually since 1933 to handle visitors for the Tsubaki Shrine grand festival. Operated by Japanese National Railways, it transferred to JR Shikoku on 1 April 1987 with privatization. In July 2002 a capacity-expansion project converted the layout into a two-platform passing station and gave the stop the nickname "No-Ball Station" (野球（の・ボール）駅), playing on the childhood name of the haiku poet Masaoka Shiki. The station is unstaffed, and its two side platforms stand on an embankment, with platform 1 carried on a bridge.

The nickname "No-Ball Station" puns on the childhood name Noboru of Matsuyama-born haiku poet Masaoka Shiki, fitting because the station serves the nearby Botchan Stadium baseball complex.