History
Shinano-Asano Station opened on 20 October 1921 as Shinshū-Asano Station, built by the Iiyama Railway in what is now Toyono-Asano in the city of Nagano. The station was renamed Shinano-Asano on 1 June 1944 when the Iiyama Railway was nationalised, and on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East with the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways. It is 2.2 kilometres from the line's starting point at Toyono and is the highest station on the Iiyama Line. The station was destaffed in 1982 and converted to a simple-agency station; the building was renovated between August and December 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shinano-Asano is the highest-elevation station on the entire Iiyama Line, sitting among apple orchards on the rural fringe of the city of Nagano.