History
Kuramoto Station began as Tachimachi Signal Stop on 1 May 1914 on what is now the JR Tōkai Chūō Main Line, in the town of Agematsu, Nagano Prefecture. It was elevated to a full passenger station on 1 September 1948. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the station passed to JR Central. The station sits 277.7 km from the official line starting point at Tokyo and 119.2 km from Nagoya, and has two opposed ground-level side platforms connected by a level crossing rather than a footbridge. It is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Passengers cross between the two platforms via a level crossing of the active main line, rather than the usual footbridge or underpass.