History
Sakurasawa Station (read "Sakurasawa") sits on the Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line in Mitsuwa, Nakano City, Nagano Prefecture, and is 21.3 km from the line's terminus at Nagano Station. It opened on 28 March 1949 with station number N17, lost freight service on 1 April 1968, was relocated to a new station building in April 1986, and became unstaffed in 1995. It has a single island platform with two tracks and a stabling siding; A-Limited Express and B-Limited Express services pass through without stopping.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Although it shares its kanji 桜沢 with a Chichibu Railway station in Saitama, the two are pronounced differently: Nakano's stop is Sakura-sawa, while the Saitama one is Sakura-zawa.