Nagisa (Nagano)

Weekday departures: 50/day · Sat & holiday departures: 50/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:10 / 23:10

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (5)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Matsumoto Dentetsu Kamikōchi Line: Shinano-Arai ⇄ Nishi-Matsumoto

The station opened on 3 May 1922 as the first Nishi-Matsumoto Station on the Chikuma Railway, which became Chikuma Electric Railway on 31 October 1922. The stop was renamed Nagisa around 1 May 1927, and the operating company became Matsumoto Electric Railway on 2 December 1932. Nagisa was redesignated from a 'crossing station' to a 'halt' in January 1963. The operator was renamed Alpico Kōtsū on 1 April 2011. On 7 September 2012 the station nameboards were redrawn to incorporate the Kamikōchi Line image character Entō Nagisa, designed by a female employee of the company; for the operator's 100+1st anniversary on 30 March 2021 they were redrawn again with a stylised version of the character. On 15 August 2021 the Tagawa-bridge between Nishi-Matsumoto and Nagisa was washed out by heavy rain, suspending services; substitute buses ran between Matsumoto and Shinmura from 16 August, with Nagisa's bus stop placed at Ryōjima-guchi on the Yamagata Line about 500 m to the south. Train services resumed between Nagisa and Shin-Shimashima on 8 October 2021 and through to Matsumoto on 10 June 2022. Suica is planned to begin at the station in spring 2027.

Nagisa is the source of the personal name for the Kamikōchi Line mascot 'Entō Nagisa', a character based on this station and the nearby Entō Station. The platform formerly had a freight yard alongside, but by 2024 the site had already been subdivided into housing lots.