Haba (Nagano)

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Haba Station opened on 28 December 1909 when the Ina Electric Tramway (later Ina Electric Railway) opened the Matsushima (now Ina-Matsushima)–Tatsuno (later Nishimachi) section. The current alignment dates from 16 March 1923, when the section between Ina-Matsushima and Tatsuno was relocated and the station was moved onto the new line as a general (passenger and freight) station. On 1 August 1943 the Ina Electric Railway was nationalised into the Iida Line and Haba became a Ministry of Railways station. Freight and parcel handling were withdrawn on 1 December 1971, and the station was unstaffed from 24 February 1983 with CTC operation. JR Central inherited it at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the present waiting-room building dates from 1 February 1999.

At 723 metres above sea level, Haba is the highest point on the entire Iida Line, despite sitting unobtrusively between rice fields and a regional warehouse district near the Inakita interchange of the Chūō Expressway.