History
Kami-Kuwanagawa Station opened on 16 September 1931 as a stop on the privately built Iiyama Railway, serving the upper Chikuma River valley in what is now Iiyama, Nagano Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1944, and the station passed to Japanese National Railways as part of the Iiyama Line; according to the Japanese-language article it was discontinued in the nationalisation and reopened on 10 October 1951. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it came under East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The unstaffed station has only a small shelter on its single embankment platform, which was refurbished between August and December 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The single platform is built on an embankment with no station building, only a shelter that was redesigned around the theme "scenery of one's hometown" using the children's song "Furusato".