History
Togari-Nozawaonsen Station opened on 6 July 1923 as Togari Station, when the Iiyama Railway extended its line from Iiyama to Kuwanagawa in what is now Iiyama, Nagano Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1944 and freight handling ended in October 1970. The station was renamed to its present compound form on 1 March 1987, and a month later it passed to East Japan Railway Company at privatisation. The two-storey current building, completed in December 1993 at a cost of 130 million yen — 100 million of it funded by the local chamber of commerce — sits about 15 metres towards Tōkamachi from the original site, with a free passage to the west completed in 1996.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station name still includes "Nozawa Onsen", the bus service from here to the hot-spring resort was discontinued when the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension reached Kanazawa on 14 March 2015, leaving the station with a name it can no longer connect to.