History
Obuse Station opened on 26 March 1923 on the Nagano Electric Railway's Nagano Line in the town of Obuse, Nagano Prefecture, 17.5 kilometres from the line's terminus at Nagano. Freight handling ended in 1972 and parcel service in 1983, and the station building was rebuilt in 1985. In 1990 the operator opened the adjacent rail-vehicle plaza Nagaden Denshanohiroba on the site. Following the discontinuation of the old Limited Express A service in October 2000, all trains — including the surviving Limited Express services — began stopping at Obuse. The wooden station building hosts the Obuse Tourism Association concierge desk and the station has been unattended in early-morning and late-night hours since July 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building doubles as the Obuse Tourism Association office, where a concierge staffs an information desk and a small shop sells local fruit and mushroom-based products.