History
Nagiso Station opened on 15 July 1909 as Midono Station (三留野駅), the temporary terminus of the government railway extension from Sakashita. On 1 September of the same year the line was extended further north to Nojiri, leaving Midono as an intermediate stop. The line was placed under the Chūō-nishi (West Chūō) designation in October 1909, then absorbed into the Chūō Main Line on 1 May 1911. Freight handling ended on 30 November 1972 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station was renamed Nagiso on 1 October 1968. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Central, and switched to simplified consignment operation in October 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The footbridge connecting Nagiso's two platforms is decorated with windows shaped to evoke railway carriages, a detail added when the 1980 station building was constructed.