History
Haba Station opened on 28 December 1909 when the Ina Electric Tramway (later Ina Electric Railway) opened the Matsushima (now Ina-Matsushima)–Tatsuno (later Nishimachi) section. The current alignment dates from 16 March 1923, when the section between Ina-Matsushima and Tatsuno was relocated and the station was moved onto the new line as a general (passenger and freight) station. On 1 August 1943 the Ina Electric Railway was nationalised into the Iida Line and Haba became a Ministry of Railways station. Freight and parcel handling were withdrawn on 1 December 1971, and the station was unstaffed from 24 February 1983 with CTC operation. JR Central inherited it at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the present waiting-room building dates from 1 February 1999.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
At 723 metres above sea level, Haba is the highest point on the entire Iida Line, despite sitting unobtrusively between rice fields and a regional warehouse district near the Inakita interchange of the Chūō Expressway.