History
Ugusu Station opened on 30 December 1936 as Ugusu Halt (鶯巣停留場) when the Shinshin Railway extended from Kowada to Mantō (now Hiraoka). On 1 August 1943 the Shinshin Railway was nationalised as part of the Iida Line and transferred to the Ministry of Transport and Communications (later Japanese National Railways), and the stop was elevated to full station status. At the time only passengers travelling to and from selected Tōkaidō Main Line stations between Hamamatsu and Nagoya, Iida Line stations, Chuo Main Line stations between Kami-Suwa and Shiojiri, and Matsumoto Station could use the station. Restrictions on passenger use were lifted on 2 December 1952. The station passed to JR Central with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Ugusu has a single side platform serving one track and is one of the better-known difficult-to-read station names. The platform has no station building — passengers enter the platform directly — and is managed as an unstaffed station under Iida Station. The Tenryū River, National Route 418, and the Ugusu plum garden are nearby. Limited-express trains do not stop here. Yearly boarding figures from the Nagano Prefectural Statistics Book hover in the low single digits — three passengers per day for fiscal 2009 and 2011, and as few as two for fiscal 2010 and 2015.