History
Takatōbara Station opened on 12 December 1918 as a halt on a new Ina Tramway extension from Nanakubo, in present-day Iijima, Kamiina District, Nagano. It was promoted to full station status on 14 June 1919 and became an intermediate stop on 22 November 1920 when the railway (renamed Ina Electric Railway in 1919) was extended on to Kamikatagiri. The company was nationalised on 1 August 1943 as part of the Iida Line and the station was discontinued, then reopened on 1 September 1946 by the Ministry of Transport. Outsourced operation ended and the station was de-staffed on 1 December 1971, and it passed to JR Central with the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
There is no road access to the platform itself: the only way to reach Takatōbara is on foot or by light vehicle from a nearby municipal road.