Nagano

Weekday departures: 70/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 84/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:02 / 22:25

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (6)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Hokuriku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line: no timetable data
• Kita-Shinano Line: no timetable data
• Shin'etsu Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Shin'etsu Line: Takasaki
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Iiyama ⇄ Ueda (Nagano)

Nagano Station opened on 1 May 1888 with the state-built line from Sekiyama, and on 15 August 1888 the extension to Ueda turned it into an intermediate stop. The 1909 route-name decree placed it on the Shin'etsu Line (later Shin'etsu Main Line), and on 10 March 1936 the famous temple-style station building was completed. On 22 June 1996 the temple-style building was replaced by a modern elevated structure. On 1 October 1997, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Takasaki to Nagano, the parallel conventional line south of Nagano was transferred to the third-sector Shinano Railway, and on 14 March 2015, when the Shinkansen reached Kanazawa, the northern Kita-Shinano Line was likewise transferred. From 15 March 2025, Suica IC service became available on the Shin'etsu Main Line and Nagano was added to the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Nagano Station's 1936 temple-style station building lost its copper-plated roof to metal requisitioning in November 1940, and the Nyoze-hime statue was likewise melted down in February 1944, leaving only the pedestal until the statue was recast in October 1948.