History
Tabata Station opened on 3 November 1911 on what is now the Iida Line in the village of Minamiminowa, Kamiina District, Nagano Prefecture. From its opening until 1959 the name was officially pronounced Tahata before shifting to Tabata. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central, and the current station building was completed in 1991. The unstaffed stop lies 181.0 kilometres from the line's terminus at Toyohashi Station and consists of a single ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track, with a simple shelter built on top of the platform and no station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Tenryū River runs along the east side of the station, leaving the platform's narrow ribbon of land hemmed in between river and road.