Station

Miyanokoshi

宮ノ越

Miyanokoshi
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Miyanokoshi Station opened on 25 November 1910 as the terminus of the Chūō East Line when the route was extended from Yabuhara. It became a through station on 1 May 1911 when the line met the Chūō West Line at Kiso-Fukushima, and the combined route was renamed the Chūō Main Line. Freight service ended on 30 November 1972, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and the station was destaffed on 22 March 1985. It passed to JR Central at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The unstaffed stop has a single island platform reached by footbridge and a wooden station building, and lies 255.5 kilometres from Tokyo along the line.

Notes

The station sits at the northeast edge of the old Nakasendō post town of Miyanokoshi-juku, near the Yoshinaka-yakata memorial to the medieval warlord Minamoto no Yoshinaka.

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