Ina Electric Railway opened the station on 3 August 1923 when the railway was extended from Motozenkōji to Iida. The line was nationalized on 1 August 1943. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Central.[2]
^市勢の概要2016(平成28年版)I.運輸・通信 [City Statistics (Fiscal 2016) section I Transport - Communications] (in Japanese). Japan: Iida City. 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2019-03-10.