History
Ochiaigawa Station is a stop on the Chūō Main Line in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, operated by JR Central. It first appeared on the line in 1913 as the Ochiaigawa signal post between Sakashita and Nakatsugawa, and was upgraded to a full passenger station on 27 November 1917. Freight handling began in 1918 and was withdrawn in 1960, and parcel service ended in 1975 when the station became unstaffed. Operations passed from Japanese National Railways to JR Central on 1 April 1987 with privatisation. The station is 313.2 km from Tokyo and 83.7 km from Nagoya.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A short-lived forestry railway, the Yubunesawa line, ran from the station forecourt to Misono in Misaka village from 1926 until being abolished entirely in 1962.