History
Inako Station opened on 15 August 1929 as a passenger-and-freight stop on the privately built Fuji Minobu Railway. The Railway Ministry leased the line from 1 October 1938 and nationalised it on 1 May 1941, when Inako became a stop on the Minobu Line. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1961, parcel handling on 20 September 1972, and the station was made unstaffed on 1 October 1973. It passed to JR Central at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The wooden station building survived into the 1990s and was later replaced by a compact concrete shelter housing only a waiting area; tickets cannot be bought at the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station features in an episode of the manga Chibi Maruko-chan ("Maru-chan goes hiking"), where its surroundings are depicted with several souvenir shops and a large station building it has never actually had.