History
Shinano-Moriue Station opened on 20 November 1932 with the extension of the Ōito-South Line between Kamishiro and the new terminus at Shinano-Moriue, in what is now the village of Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. The line was completed end to end in 1957 and renamed the Ōito Line. From 1960 until the section north of the station was electrified in December 1967, Shinano-Moriue was a transfer point between electric trains from Matsumoto and diesel railcars from Itoigawa. The station was destaffed on 25 March 1983 and became fully unstaffed in 2006. The 2014 Kamishiro earthquake suspended the line through 7 December that year; the current building dates from November 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Between 1960 and 1967, Shinano-Moriue functioned as a transfer station between electric trains from Matsumoto and diesel railcars from Itoigawa because only the southern half of the Ōito Line had been electrified.