History
Aoyagi Station opened on 25 November 1905 with the inauguration of the Railway Bureau's Chūō Main Line section between Fujimi and Okaya, handling both passengers and freight. Freight handling ended in January 1965 and parcel service in February 1984, with the station becoming unstaffed the following month. It passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The wooden station building was rebuilt in concrete in 2002 in a design that references the udatsu firewall motif of the nearby former Kanazawa-juku post town, earning a Railway Architecture Association award. The station is in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, and was given the line number CO55 in February 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 2002 station building was designed around the udatsu firewall motif of the nearby former Kanazawa-juku post town on the Kōshū Kaidō, and won a Railway Architecture Association award.