History
Jūnikane Station began as Jūnikane Signal Stop on 3 December 1929, on the Chūō Main Line between Nojiri and Mitono (now Nagiso) in what is today Nagiso, Nagano. It was upgraded to a full passenger station on 1 September 1948, with parcel handling but no freight service. Operations were contracted out from 26 February 1982, and the station became unstaffed on 1 October 1984, when parcel handling also ended. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Central, and the current station building dates from a 1992 rebuild. The line between Nagiso and the station was damaged in July 2014, prompting a substitute bus service that ran until services resumed on 6 August 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platforms sit atop an embankment reached by stairs, and Jūnikane marks the start of double-track operation southwards toward Nagoya, making it the line's only train-crossing point on this stretch.