History
Notogawa Station opened on 1 July 1889 when the original railway between Sekigahara and Baba (modern Zeze) was put into service. The station, in present-day Higashiōmi, Shiga Prefecture, lies 19.8 km from Maibara and 465.7 km from Tokyo on the Biwako Line section of the Tōkaidō Main Line. Operations passed to JR West with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. The station building straddles the platforms on an elevated walkway and serves one side and one island platform. Station numbering was introduced across the Biwako Line in March 2018 and Notogawa was assigned JR-A17. The station remains staffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A small museum, library and town-hall branch — successors to the former Notogawa Town offices — cluster on the west side of the station within a short walk of the ticket gates.