History
Shinano-Kawakami Station opened on 16 January 1935 on what is now the Koumi Line, serving the village of Kawakami in Nagano Prefecture. Built and operated by Japanese Government Railways (later Japanese National Railways), the station handled freight during its earlier decades and was an outlet for highland-vegetable shipments. It passed to JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed in 2002, and a fresh structure was commissioned in late April 2021. Today it is an unattended station with a narrow island platform serving two tracks, connected to the building by a level crossing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
At 1,138 metres above sea level, Shinano-Kawakami is the fourth-highest station on JR's network; the platform shelter, called "Genryū-no-Sato Matsumiai," was paid for by Kawakami Village in 2010 and built from the area's signature larch glulam.