History
Higashi-Komoro Station opened on 10 July 1952 as a Japanese National Railways station on the Koumi Line in Komoro, Nagano, 77.4 km from the line's Kobuchizawa terminus. It has handled passengers only since opening. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East. The single side platform serves one bi-directional track and has no station building, only a shelter; the station has always been unstaffed. The Shinano Railway Line runs parallel here but does not stop, so all rail passengers at this location use the Koumi Line via this platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the Shinano Railway tracks run alongside Higashi-Komoro, Shinano Railway has never built a station here — leaving it as a single-operator stop on what is otherwise a two-operator corridor.