History
Ōkuwa Station opened on 1 September 1951 as a new intermediate stop on the Chūō Main Line between Suhara and Nojiri, in the village of Ōkuwa, Nagano Prefecture. Initially it handled only passengers and parcels. A passing loop was installed on 26 September 1966, parcel handling ended in 1984, and the station was destaffed in March 1985, becoming a simplified-agency stop. With the dissolution of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it transferred to JR Central. The simplified agency arrangement was terminated on 1 October 2024, leaving the station unstaffed at all times. The opening-era wooden station building and footbridge remain in use today.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.