History
Mukaichiba Station was established on 11 November 1955 as a Japanese National Railways passenger stop when the Iida Line between Sakuma and Ōzore was rerouted on a new alignment to clear the rising reservoir of the Sakuma Dam. The station became unstaffed on 1 December 1971, and on 1 April 1987 it transferred to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) with the breakup of JNR. The single-track station has one ground-level side platform and no station building; a small waiting room stands on the platform itself. Day-to-day affairs are handled from Chūbu-Tenryū Station. In fiscal 2024 the station averaged five boarding passengers daily.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Mukaichiba averaged just five passengers a day in fiscal 2024 — typical of the deep-mountain stretch of the Iida Line that runs between Sakuma Dam and Misakubo and was built specifically to bypass the dam's reservoir.