History
Nakaisamurai opened on 30 December 1936 as a halt on the Sanshin Railway when the line was extended from Kowada to Mitsushima (now Hiraoka), originally read "Nakaizamurai". The Sanshin Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 as part of the Iida Line, the reading was changed to its present form, and the halt was upgraded to a full station. Initial ticketing was restricted to a small set of corridors and was only fully deregulated on 1 April 1971. The same year saw business outsourcing end and the stop go unmanned in December. With the 1 April 1987 break-up of Japanese National Railways, Nakaisamurai passed to JR Central. The platform waiting room was demolished on 31 July 1998.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Nakaisamurai sits on a steep slope with tea fields fanned out below the platform, and the station yard hosts a seasonal pop-up cafe, "Ryokucha Cafe Chamurai", offering tasting flights of tea grown by neighbouring farmers.