History
Ina-Shimmachi Station opened on 28 December 1909 as the Minami-Shimmachi Stop on the Ina Electric Tramway, the predecessor of the Iida Line, between Matsushima (now Ina-Matsushima) and Tatsuno (later Nishimachi). It was briefly closed in March 1923 when a realignment of the segment was opened, then re-established on the new line on 20 April 1923. On 1 August 1943 the Ina Electric Railway was nationalised into the Iida Line under the Ministry of Railways, and the stop was promoted to a station and renamed Ina-Shimmachi. It briefly became staffed in 1971 but reverted to unstaffed operation with CTC in 1983, and JR Central inherited it at the 1987 privatisation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When Ina-Shimmachi was used for tablet-block exchanges, JR ran trains the "wrong way round" on the island platform — using tracks 1 and 2 in the reverse direction of normal usage so the platform was on the conductor's side for handing the tablets.