History
Tategahana Station is on JR East's Iiyama Line in Toyono-machi Kanisawa, Nagano. It is a request station (請願駅), built at the expense of residents of the Tategahana area of Nakano City and the former Toyono Town, and opened as a passenger station on 8 August 1958. It came under JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The line was suspended after the 7.11 floods on 12 July 1995 and reopened across the whole Iiyama Line on 18 July 1995. The waiting room was refurbished between August and December 2014, themed on "the seasons and traditional songs of the long-flowing Chikuma River".
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Most users of Tategahana Station are actually residents not of Toyono — the Nagano-side district where the station sits — but of the eponymous Tategahana district of Nakano City, across the Chikuma River from the platform.