History
Nakagomi Station is on JR East's Koumi Line in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, 65.5 kilometres from the Kobuchizawa starting point. It opened on 8 August 1915 as the southern terminus of the privately built Saku Railway between Komoro and Nakagomi, with the line extended to Haguroshita that December. The line was nationalised on 1 September 1934 and merged into the Koumi Line. The station building was rebuilt in July 1952, freight handling ended in February 1984, and the station passed to JR East with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. The Midori no Madoguchi closed on 11 March 2022. The station has one side and one island platform and houses the Koumi Line operations centre.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Each exam season a small "Hairēru Jinja" shrine — a play on the line's HIGH RAIL 1375 tourist train and on "shibōkō ni haireru," passing the entrance exam — is set up in the station compound for students to pray at.