History
Akagi Station opened on 27 December 1913 with the Ina Electric Tramway's extension from Miyada to Inamachi (today's Ina-shi) in the Nishi-Harukini district of Ina, Nagano Prefecture. The station was moved roughly 800 metres north in December 1923 and back to its present site, 800 metres south, from December 1934 onward — the relocation was driven by mounting level-crossing accidents on the prefectural road. The Ina Electric Railway lines were nationalised as part of the JNR Iida Line on 1 August 1943, the station was destaffed in 1967, and JR Central inherited the facility at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The current shelter dates from 1998.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Following the 1997 closure of the Usui Pass section, the gradient between Akagi and the neighbouring Sawando is the steepest still in use anywhere on the JR network.