History
Miyanokoshi Station opened on 25 November 1910 as the terminus of the Chūō East Line when the route was extended from Yabuhara. It became a through station on 1 May 1911 when the line met the Chūō West Line at Kiso-Fukushima, and the combined route was renamed the Chūō Main Line. Freight service ended on 30 November 1972, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and the station was destaffed on 22 March 1985. It passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The unstaffed stop has a single island platform reached by footbridge and a wooden station building, and lies 255.5 kilometres from Tokyo along the line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station sits at the northeast edge of the old Nakasendō post town of Miyanokoshi-juku, near the Yoshinaka-yakata memorial to the medieval warlord Minamoto no Yoshinaka.