is a railway station in the city of

Shinshiro is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 44,581 in 17,691 households, and a population density of 89.3 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Shinshiro is located in east-cent ...

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, operated by

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

(JR Tōkai).

Lines

Nagashinojō Station is served by the Iida Line, and is located 30.8 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Toyohashi Station.

Station layout

The station has a single side platform serving bidirectional one track.The station building has automated ticket machines, TOICA automated turnstiles and is unattended.

Adjacent stations

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Station history

Nagashinojō Station was established on April 1, 1924 as on the now-defunct . On August 1, 1943, the Hōraiji Railway was nationalized along with some other local lines to form the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Iida Line and the station was renamed to its present name. Scheduled freight operations were discontinued in 1962. The station has been unattended since 1971 Along with its division and privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control and operation of the

(JR Tōkai).

Surrounding area

Nagashino Castle was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now Shinshiro, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is noteworthy as the site of the crucial Battle of Nagashino between the combined forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga against Takeda ...

ruins

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagashinojo Station Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924 Railway stations in Aichi Prefecture Iida Line Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Shinshiro, Aichi