History
Hideshio Station began on 10 September 1913 as a signal stop on the Chūō Main Line between Seba and Niekawa, and was upgraded to a full passenger station on 21 December 1926. Freight handling ran from April 1941 to June 1960, and the Hideshio–Niekawa section was relocated to a new alignment in September 1978. The station became a contracted-staff stop in February 1982 and was destaffed in October 1984. With the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 it joined JR Central, and the original timber station building was finally rebuilt in late 2009 as a simple waiting shelter without toilets. The stop sits 231.0 km from Tokyo, hillside above the village, with two opposed side platforms linked by footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Hideshio appears at the very opening of the 1972 Tora-san film Tora-san's Dream of Spring, where Tora-san wakes from a dream as a D51 double-headed freight train rumbles past the platform.