History
Kisogawa Station opened on 1 June 1886 as a stop on what was then the Nakasendō Trunk Railway, with rail-to-rickshaw transfers across the still-unbridged Kiso River to Ōgaki. The planned Tokyo - Nagoya trunk route had already been switched from the Nakasendō to the Tōkaidō in July 1886, and the Kiso River bridge was completed in April 1887, joining the line through to Kanō (now Gifu). The Nōbi earthquake destroyed the first station building in October 1891; a second building completed in 1892 served until 2008, when a new bridged station opened. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR Central, and it was unstaffed from 1 February 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
A brick warehouse from the Taishō era — originally a storage shed for the oil used on track switches — survives outside the west exit and is preserved as an industrial heritage relic.