History
The station opened on 3 May 1922 as the first Nishi-Matsumoto Station on the Chikuma Railway, which became Chikuma Electric Railway on 31 October 1922. The stop was renamed Nagisa around 1 May 1927, and the operating company became Matsumoto Electric Railway on 2 December 1932. Nagisa was redesignated from a 'crossing station' to a 'halt' in January 1963. The operator was renamed Alpico Kōtsū on 1 April 2011. On 7 September 2012 the station nameboards were redrawn to incorporate the Kamikōchi Line image character Entō Nagisa, designed by a female employee of the company; for the operator's 100+1st anniversary on 30 March 2021 they were redrawn again with a stylised version of the character. On 15 August 2021 the Tagawa-bridge between Nishi-Matsumoto and Nagisa was washed out by heavy rain, suspending services; substitute buses ran between Matsumoto and Shinmura from 16 August, with Nagisa's bus stop placed at Ryōjima-guchi on the Yamagata Line about 500 m to the south. Train services resumed between Nagisa and Shin-Shimashima on 8 October 2021 and through to Matsumoto on 10 June 2022. Suica is planned to begin at the station in spring 2027.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Nagisa is the source of the personal name for the Kamikōchi Line mascot 'Entō Nagisa', a character based on this station and the nearby Entō Station. The platform formerly had a freight yard alongside, but by 2024 the site had already been subdivided into housing lots.