History
Shinano-Sakai Station opened on 1 November 1928 in the village of Sakai, Fujimi, Suwa District, Nagano Prefecture, on the Chūō Main Line. The unattended stop lies 178.2 kilometres from the line's terminus at Tokyo Station and has two unnumbered opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East. Station numbering was introduced on the line from February 2025, assigning it CO52. In fiscal 2015 the station was used by an average of 166 boarding passengers per day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The stop sits beside National Route 20 in the high tableland between the Yatsugatake and Southern Alps ranges, far from any major town centre.