History
Shigeno Station opened on 1 October 1923 as a station of the Ministry of Railways' Shin'etsu Main Line in present-day Tōmi, Nagano. Freight handling ended in February 1963, the station was operationally entrusted in July 1979, parcel handling ceased in February 1984, and it was destaffed under a simple commission arrangement the following month. After JNR privatisation in April 1987 it served JR East, then transferred to the third-sector Shinano Railway on 1 October 1997 with the Hokuriku Shinkansen Takasaki–Nagano opening. The station was fully destaffed in April 2022 and Suica service began on 14 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
For roughly two decades the ticket window was contracted to a local taxi company — "Shigeno Matsuba Taxi" — an arrangement that ran from April 2002 until the station was fully destaffed in April 2022.