History
Shinano-Matsukawa Station opened on 29 September 1915 as Ikeda-Matsukawa Station, a stop on the privately-built Shinano Railway in what is now the village of Matsukawa, Nagano Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1937 and the station took its current name the same day. With the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East. Limited express trains began stopping for the first time on 10 December 2005, although that arrangement ended in March 2010. The exterior was given an "Azumino Chihiro Art Museum" treatment in 2010, and a second-generation station building entered service on 23 February 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
It is the only intermediate station on the Oito Line to retain a staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office, though no automated ticket machine has been installed.