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Kita-Nagano Station is a railway station on the Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line in Nakagoe, in the city of Nagano, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway. It is also a freight terminal for the Japan Freight Railway Company.LinesKita-Nagano Station is served by the 37.3 km Kita-Shinano Line, and is 3.9 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Nagano Station. Some trains of the Iiyama Line also stop at this station.HistoryThe station opened on 1 September 1898 as. It was renamed Kita-Nagano Station on 1 April 1957. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new Shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies. From this date, Kita-Nagano Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Shinano Railway.Passenger statisticsIn fiscal 2013, while still under the control of JR East, the station was used by an average of 2,170 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).