History
Inao Station opened on 20 July 1960 as a Japanese National Railways passenger-only halt, built in response to a local petition. The station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Service was interrupted by the 22 November 2014 Kamishiro fault earthquake, and the line through Inao was progressively restored through early December that year. The station joined the Tokyo metropolitan suburban zone on 14 March 2026. It is an unstaffed surface stop with a single side platform managed from Shinano-Ōmachi Station, but Suica is not accepted; the platform is only long enough for three carriages, so the fourth car of a longer train stops across the level crossing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform is just three carriages long, so a fourth-car train has its end carriage stop straddling the adjacent level crossing; this crossing is closed to road traffic from December through March each year.