History
Hirataki Station opened on 16 October 1931 as an Iiyama Railway halt in what is now the village of Sakae, Nagano. It was promoted from halt to station on 26 September 1934 and nationalised on 1 June 1944. The station became a contracted operation in June 1961 and ended freight handling in August 1962. Baggage operations ceased and the station went unstaffed on 21 December 1970 before reverting to a simple commission in August 1972. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East, and the small wooden building was rebuilt in November 2010. The original cross-able layout has been reduced to a single side platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Hirataki recorded just three average daily boardings in fiscal 2024, the lowest of any JR East station for which figures are published.