History
Kiriishi Station is on the Iida Line in Iida, Nagano Prefecture, 127.7 km from the line's starting point at Toyohashi, operated by JR Central. It opened on 17 December 1926 as the Kiriishi temporary stop on the Ina Electric Railway extension from Inayawata to Iida. With nationalisation of the Ina Electric Railway on 1 August 1943 it was promoted to a full station as part of the JNR Iida Line, and at JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR Central. The single side platform lies on the outside of a 160-metre-radius curve, leaving a gap between train doors and the platform edge at car-centre.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After Tagiri Station was relocated, Kiriishi inherited the distinction of standing on the sharpest curved platform anywhere on the Iida Line — its 160-metre-radius bend leaves a visible gap at car-centre doors.