History
Ōmi-Nagaoka Station is on the JR Central Tōkaidō Main Line in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, 435.2 km from the line's official starting point in Tokyo, and is also a JR Freight depot. It opened on 1 July 1889 as Nagaoka Station with the Sekigahara–Baba (now Zeze) extension. A new alignment via what is now Kashiwabara Station opened on 15 October 1899 to reduce the gradient, and the old route via Fukaya was suspended that day and formally closed on 28 December 1899. The station was renamed Ōmi-Nagaoka on 1 December 1914. The wooden station building was rebuilt in reinforced concrete on 3 October 1961. The station passed to JR Central and JR Freight on 1 April 1987, the Sumitomo Ōsaka Cement siding closed on 28 June 1999, and TOICA service began on 2 March 2019. It was unstaffed and equipped with automated turnstiles on 1 February 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After staffed service ended on 31 January 2024, the platform-side waiting room was reopened the next day as Café Lumière, a community-run café operated by local residents.