Nobeyama Station

Nobeyama Station (野辺山駅, Nobeyama-eki) is a railway station on the Koumi Line in the village of Minamimaki in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Nobeyama Station is served by the 78.9 km (49.0 mi) Koumi Line and is 23.4 km (14.5 mi) from the starting point of the line at Kobuchizawa Station.

The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

A sign on the platform proclaims it to be the highest JR station in Japan, located at 1,345.67 m (4,414.9 ft) above sea level.

[2] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.