History
The station opened on 14 May 1912 as Inamachi Station, the terminus of an Ina Electric Tramway extension from Irifune-machi in what is now Ina, Nagano Prefecture. Through services pushed onward to Miyada on 27 December 1913 turned it into an intermediate stop, and the line was nationalised into the Iida Line on 1 August 1943. The station building was rebuilt in March 1952, freight handling ended that July, and on 10 November 1954 it was renamed Inashi Station when Ina was promoted from town to city. Parcel handling ended in 1971 alongside the installation of an automatic ticket machine, an overhead footbridge replaced the level crossing on 15 March 1976, and a Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office opened in 1979. The station passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and remains the central station of the city of Ina.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
OVAs based on the manga "Kyūkyoku Chōjin R" are set on the Iida Line; since 2012 a citizen-organised event has invited cyclists to recreate a scene in which characters cover the run from Tagiri to Inashi in under an hour by bicycle.