Station

Inashinmachi

伊那新町

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Inashinmachi
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Ina-Shimmachi Station opened on 28 December 1909 as the Minami-Shimmachi Stop on the Ina Electric Tramway, the predecessor of the Iida Line, between Matsushima (now Ina-Matsushima) and Tatsuno (later Nishimachi). It was briefly closed in March 1923 when a realignment of the segment was opened, then re-established on the new line on 20 April 1923. On 1 August 1943 the Ina Electric Railway was nationalised into the Iida Line under the Ministry of Railways, and the stop was promoted to a station and renamed Ina-Shimmachi. It briefly became staffed in 1971 but reverted to unstaffed operation with CTC in 1983, and JR Central inherited it at the 1987 privatisation.

Notes

When tablets were still exchanged at Ina-Shimmachi, trains ran the "wrong way round" on the island platform: tracks 1 and 2 were used in the reverse of the normal direction — right-hand running — to make handing the tablets over easier.

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