History
Nakatsugawa Station opened on 21 December 1902 as Nakatsu Station (中津駅) on the official railway between Tajimi and Nakatsugawa, in what is now the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture. The 1909 line-naming placed it on the Chūō West Line, and on 1 June 1911 it was renamed to its present name. The 1924 Hokuena Railway branch from Nakatsu-machi to Shimotsukechi was discontinued on 18 September 1978, and on 1 April 1987 the station joined JR Central. The limited express Shinano was given all-stop status on 1 October 1997, and on 25 November 2006 TOICA service began for trains towards Nagoya. The station has a Midori-no-Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In 1932 a debris flow from the Yotsume River swept into the station precincts, killing two people and washing away 73 buildings.