History
Azumi-Oiwake Station opened on 16 November 1915 on what is now the JR East Ōito Line in present-day Azumino, Nagano Prefecture. It was given its present name in 1919, after originally opening under the somewhat exuberant title "Alps-Oiwake Station." With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East. A new station building was completed in 2015. The station has one ground-level island platform serving two tracks, connected to the station building by a level crossing, and operates as a Kan'i Itaku (contracted-operation) station situated 19.9 km from the line's terminus at Matsumoto.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the station first opened in 1915 it was called "Alps-Oiwake," and kept that distinctly foreign-sounding name for four years before the railways quietly settled on the more conventional Japanese "Azumi-Oiwake" in 1919.