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is a railway station in the city of
Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan ** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture *** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics *** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano *** Nagano Universi ...
in
Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...
, Japan. The station is operated by
East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...
(JR East) and the private railway operator Nagano Electric Railway (Nagaden).


Lines

Nagano Station is served by the following lines. *
JR East The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...
**
Hokuriku Shinkansen The is a high-speed Shinkansen railway line jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West), connecting Tokyo with in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The first section, between and in Nagano Pr ...
(branded "Nagano Shinkansen" until March 2015), on which it is 222.4 kilometers from
Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Tokyo Imperial Palace, Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is ...
**
Shinetsu Main Line The Shinetsu Main Line ( ja, 信越本線, ) is a railway line, consisting of three geographically separated sections, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan. It was originally one continuous line connecting and via . S ...
** Shinonoi Line **
Iiyama Line The is a railway line in Japan linking Toyono Station in Nagano, Nagano Prefecture and Echigo-Kawaguchi Station in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. It is operated by East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japa ...
*
Shinano Railway Line The is a 65.1 km railway line operated by the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It connects Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa with Shinonoi Station in Nagano. Overview Before October 19 ...
* Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line


Station layout

The JR East portion of the station has two elevated
island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...
s for the Shinkansen services, and three ground-level island platforms for local services, including onward services by Kita-Shinano Line trains. The station has a "
Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...
" staffed ticket office. Nagano Station Zenkoji exit.jpg, Nagano Station Zenkoji Entrance 長野駅 - panoramio (16).jpg, Nagano Station East Entrance Nagano st02s2048.jpg, Concourse of JR station NER Nagano station.JPG, Entrance of Nagano Electric Railway (Nagaden)


JR East

The Shinkansen platforms use the tune "
Shinano no Kuni is the prefecture song of Nagano Prefecture, Japan, created for educational purposes. Because of its popular appearance in public areas such as train stations and TV programs, a large segment of the prefecture's population can remember the song. ...
" (the Nagano prefectural song) for the
departure melody A train melody is a succession of musically expressive tones played when a train is arriving at or about to depart from a train station. As part of train passenger operations, a train melody includes a parade of single notes organized to follow e ...
since January 2015. JRE-Nagano-STA Local-line-Gate.jpg, local line Ticket gate, October 2021 JRE-Nagano-STA Shinkansen-Gate.jpg, Shinkansen Ticket gate, October 2021 JRE-Nagano-STA Transfer.jpg, Transfer Ticket gate, January 2022 JRE-Nagano-STA Home4-5.jpg, local line Platforms, October 2021 長野駅.jpg, Shinkansen Platforms, March 2019


Nagano Electric Railway

The Nagano Electric Railway platforms are located underground below the JR platforms. The Nagano Electric Railway has two island platforms serving three tracks. Nagaden-Nagano-STA Gate.jpg, Ticket gate, October 2021 Nagaden-Nagano-STA Ticket.jpg, Ticket vending machines, October 2021 Nagaden Nagano sta02s5s4272.jpg, Platforms, July 2009


History

Nagano Station opened on 1 May 1888. When the
Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...
(JNR) were divided and privatized on 1 April 1987, the station became a part of the system of East Japan Railway Company (JR East). On 1 October 1997, JR East opened the
Nagano Shinkansen The is a high-speed Shinkansen railway line jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West), connecting Tokyo with in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The first section, between and in Nagano ...
with its terminus at Nagano.


Bus terminals


Highway buses

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, Hakuba Happo, Tsugaike Kogen, and Hakuba-Norikura * For Shinano-Ōmachi Station and Ōgizawa Station * ''Misuzu Highway Bus''; For
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Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the JR East portion of the station was used by an average of 21,168 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).


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Nagano Station
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