History
Kita-Ōmachi Station opened on 20 July 1960 as an unstaffed Japanese National Railways stop on the Ōito Line in the city of Ōmachi, Nagano. The site had been used since 1956 as a Kansai Electric Power materials yard supporting construction of the Kurobe Dam, with a single-track freight spur running parallel to the main line down to Shinano-Ōmachi; the yard later supported Tokyo Electric's Takase River hydroelectric works. The station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the surrounding rail-yard site is now occupied by the Ōmachi City Cultural Centre. The line was incorporated into JR East's Tokyo near-suburban fare zone on 14 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The site of Kita-Ōmachi Station served from 1956 as Kansai Electric Power's materials yard for the construction of the Kurobe Dam, and the spur once ran beside the main line as far as Shinano-Ōmachi before the dam's completion.