History
Mitsuoka Station opened on 14 April 1925 on the Saku Railway in what is today Komoro, Nagano Prefecture. The line had reached the area on 8 August 1915 with two nearby halts - Tsuchihashi toward Komoro and Ichimura toward Komi - but local petitioning and pooled contributions merged them into the relocated Mitsuoka. The Saku Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1934 and absorbed into the Koumi North Line (later the Koumi Line). The station became contracted-management on 22 March 1981, lost freight on 15 July 1982 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984, passed to JR East on 1 April 1987, was un-staffed on 1 April 1991, and a replacement station building opened around November 2002.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Local tradition holds that the cherry-tree embankment running between the station and the prefectural road was raised by the village that opposed paying its share of construction, specifically to block easier access from the station to its rival's side.