History
The station opened on 24 June 1928 as Nishikichō Station of the Nagano Electric Railway, on the ground near the present Minami-Chitose-chō intersection, and on 30 September of the same year it became a Nagano Dentetsu station. On 1 March 1981 the line between Nagano and Zenkōji-shita was placed underground; the platforms were relocated near Shōwa-dōri, the closed Midorichō Station (suspended since 1945) was absorbed into the station, and the consolidated stop was renamed Shiyakushomae. Operating hours of the south entrance were shortened on 15 October 2001 owing to falling use, departure indicators were installed on platform 1 in 2007 and on the concourse in September 2012, the station was relamped with LEDs in December 2016, and the south entrance was closed on 12 March 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Shiyakushomae is an underground station beneath Nagano-Ōdōri with two opposed side platforms; the underground concourse connecting the platforms also doubles as a road-crossing subway, and the station has a single up escalator from platform 2 to the concourse. Nagano City Hall, despite the station's name, is roughly 300 m east of the entrance. The station's registered address is 1120-5 Tsuruga-aza-Morishita — corresponding to the modern Kami-Chitose-chō neighbourhood — with the north exit extending into Midorichō and the (former) south exit into Minami-Chitose.