History
Kiso-Fukushima Station opened on 25 November 1910 as the terminus of the Chūō West Line extension from Agematsu, handling both passenger and freight traffic from the start. The following May the line was pushed onward to Miyanokoshi and merged with the Chūō East Line into a unified Chūō Main Line, making Kiso-Fukushima an intermediate stop. Freight operations ended on 31 January 1980 and the present two-storey reinforced-concrete station building with a gabled roof opened on 15 July 1981. Parcel handling ceased in 1985, and with JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Central. An elevator entered service on 1 February 2022. Every limited-express "Shinano" calls here, and the station functions as the representative stop for Kiso Town and a hub for tourism in the surrounding Kiso region.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A preserved D51-class steam locomotive (number 775) sits on display in the station precinct, a reminder that Kiso-Fukushima Locomotive Depot once stood here in the steam era.