History
Kami-Nojiri Station opened on 1 November 1914 when the Railway Agency's Iwakoshi Line was extended between Nozawa and Tsugawa, completing the route now known as the Banetsu West Line. The passing siding and downbound line on the station-building side were later removed, leaving a single side platform serving one bi-directional track. Freight handling ended on 1 September 1972, and the station was destaffed under simple contract operation on 28 February 1983, with parcel handling ending the same day. Control passed to JR East at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987, and on 1 April 2021 the contract operation was discontinued, making the station fully unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until 2008 the Kami-Nojiri station building doubled as the Muraoka branch of JA Aizu-Iide, putting an agricultural co-op counter inside what is otherwise a single-platform rural halt with about 16 boarding passengers a day.