History
Dentetsu-Uozu Station opened on 5 June 1936 when the Toyama Electric Railway extended from Hayatsuki (now Etchū-Nakamura). On 21 August the line was extended to Uozu (now Shin-Uozu), and on 1 October 1936 the through line to Nishi-Mikkaichi (now Dentetsu-Kurobe) opened. The wartime company consolidation of 1 January 1943 placed it in Toyama Chihō Railway. The Dentetsu-Uozu Building, opened on 1 September 1967 as Toyama Prefecture and the Sea-of-Japan side's first elevated station, was a four-storey complex that hosted the Dentetsu-Uozu Station Department Store "Tabiji" until that closed in March 1999. Construction of the new (current) two-storey station building, north of the old one, commenced on 28 January 2013; it was completed on 3 June 2013 and opened on 4 June 2013, with the surrounding plaza completed on 20 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
At its 1967 completion the Dentetsu-Uozu Station Building, at 22.44 m, was the tallest building in Uozu City. It was, however, built before barrier-free standards were common and had no escalators or elevators, forcing all passengers including older residents to climb stairs to the third-floor platforms. Maintenance lapsed after the department store closed in 1999 and the building took on the appearance of a derelict ruin until the 2013 replacement.