History
Furuma Station has its origins in a Japanese Government Railways signal facility opened on 1 October 1913 as the Furuma Signal Station, supervised from neighbouring Kashiwabara (now Kurohime). It became independent in May 1925 and was upgraded to a full passenger station on 23 December 1928. Freight handling ended in 1970 and parcel service in 1984, after which the station was operated under a simplified-commission arrangement. The station building was rebuilt in December 2001. The commission was lifted on 12 March 2015 and Furuma became fully unstaffed; two days later, on 14 March 2015, the surrounding section of the former Shinetsu Main Line was transferred from JR East to the third-sector Shinano Railway in connection with the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.