History
Kami-Imai Station opened on 20 October 1921 as a station of the Iiyama Railway, after local residents petitioned successfully for its inclusion despite the railway's reluctance owing to its proximity to neighbouring Kaesa. During World War II the line was nationalised on 1 June 1944, making it part of the JNR Iiyama Line, and the station became fully passenger in 1974 and unattended on simplified commission in 1982. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR it passed to JR East. The 1995 Nagano flooding closed the full line for a week in July of that year. After the simplified-commission arrangement was discontinued on 31 July 2014, the station was renovated between August and mid-December that year in connection with the Hokuriku Shinkansen opening. The station sits in the city of Nakano on the Iiyama Line, 6.9 kilometres from the starting point at Toyono.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.