Station

Nishijo

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Nishijo
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Nishijō Station opened on 1 November 1900 as the terminus of the government-operated Shinonoi Line, becoming an intermediate stop when the line was later extended to Matsumoto. Freight handling ended in December 1971, and the station became an unstaffed simple-contract station in March 1985. It passed to JR East with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. In September 1988 the alignment between Akashina and Nishijō was rerouted, eliminating the former Shiozawa signal stop. The line received station-numbering codes in February 2025 (with Nishijō becoming SN09), and Suica IC card service began on 15 March 2025.

Notes

Because the Sanyō Main Line in Hiroshima Prefecture has a station written with the same characters — read there as Saijō — tickets issued at this Nagano station are printed with the prefix "(篠)", standing for the Shinonoi Line, to tell the two apart.

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