History
Shimojima Station opened on 10 May 1922 as a station of the Chikuma Railway, on what is now the Alpico Kōtsū Kamikōchi Line in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, 9.5 km from Matsumoto. The operating company was renamed the Chikuma Electric Railway on 31 October 1922, became the Matsumoto Electric Railway on 2 December 1932, and was renamed Alpico Kōtsū on 1 April 2011. The station is scheduled to become Suica-compatible in the spring of 2027. It consists of a single side platform serving a single bi-directional track, with no station building — passengers shelter in a plastic-roofed waiting hut on the platform — and is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
There is a homonym Shimojima Station on the JR Central Iida Line in Ina, also in Nagano Prefecture — two stations sharing the name within the same prefecture but in different municipalities.