History
Kaesa Station is on the Iiyama Line in the city of Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, operated by JR East. It opened on 20 October 1921 as a station on the privately built Iiyama Railway, and was nationalised on 1 June 1944 when the line was absorbed by the Ministry of Transport (later Japanese National Railways). Freight operations were withdrawn in 1963, and the station passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation. After spells as a contracted-staff and then a directly operated facility, simplified contract operation began in March 1995. The station building was renovated in 2014 around the theme of the four seasons of the nearby Chikuma River and the local songs of native-son lyricist Tatsuyuki Takano. It became unattended in September 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until full unstaffing in 2023, the station played one of four classic Japanese songs by local lyricist Tatsuyuki Takano — "Furusato", "Haru no Ogawa", "Momiji" or "Oboro-zukiyo" — whenever a daytime train pulled in, the choice rotating by season.