History
Kamikatagiri Station opened on 22 November 1920 as a terminus of the privately built Ina Electric Railway extension from Takatōhara. In 1922 the line continued to Ina-Ōshima, making it an intermediate stop. The Ina Electric Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 as part of the Iida Line under the Ministry of Railways. Freight handling outside of dedicated sidings ended in 1971, and the station became unstaffed in 1994. Operation passed to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and JR Freight at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. A new steel-frame station building replaced the older structure in February 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A dedicated cement siding once ran from the station to the Nippon Cement (now Taiheiyō Cement) Kamikatagiri service station; it fell out of use in March 1996 and was later removed.