Nagano

Weekday departures: 70/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 84/day+

First / last train (weekday): 6:02 / 22:25

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (6)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

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

Nagano Station opened on 1888-05-01 with the state-built line from Sekiyama, and on 1888-08-15 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 1936-03-10 the famous temple-style station building was completed. On 1996-06-22 the temple-style building was replaced by a modern elevated structure. On 1997-10-01, 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 2015-03-14, when the Shinkansen reached Kanazawa, the northern Hokushinano Line was likewise transferred. From 2025-03-15, 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 bronze Nyoze-hime statue was likewise melted down in February 1944, leaving only the pedestal until the statue was recast in October 1948.