History
Hino Station opened on 28 June 1926 as part of the Nagano Electric Railway, and on 30 September of the same year a merger between Nagano Electric Railway and Kawahigashi Railway brought it into the Nagano Dentetsu network. The station was suspended on 11 January 1944 under wartime electricity rationing. It was reopened on 8 October 1987 at a new site relocated toward Suzaka; the original location, beside a level crossing on the Murayama side, had been a staffed station whose platform retaining wall is still visible today.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When Hino reopened in 1987 it received the Nagano Dentetsu network's first ticket-issuing machine for unstaffed stations, since replaced by a standard automatic vending machine. The station has only a simple shelter on a single side platform and remains unattended.