History
Inakita Station opened on 4 January 1912 as the terminus of an extension by the Ina Electric Tramway (renamed the Ina Electric Railway in 1919), serving Ina in Nagano Prefecture on the route that would become the Iida Line. The line was extended further on 11 May 1912, converting the station into an intermediate stop. It was nationalised on 1 August 1943 when the Ina Electric Railway became part of the Iida Line under the Railway Ministry. Freight traffic ended in 1984 and parcel handling the following year. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, control passed to JR Central, and the current station building was rebuilt on 15 March 1991. The station has been unstaffed since 1 April 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is the closest stop to Inakita, Takatō, and Kami-Ina Agricultural high schools, which keeps the platform busy with students even after daily boardings fell to around a thousand by the late 2010s.