History
Mure Station opened on 1 May 1888 as a national railway station, on what would become part of the Shinetsu Main Line. Freight handling ended in 1981, the station became a commissioned-operation station in 1982, and parcel handling ended in 1984. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station came under JR East. On 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local operations on parallel sections were reassigned to third-sector operators, and Mure transferred to the Shinano Railway as part of the new Kita-Shinano Line. Suica IC service was introduced on 14 March 2026, with simultaneous discontinuation of the ticket window. The wooden station building dates from November 1922 and the relocated footbridge from 1900, considered among Japan's oldest in active use.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.