History
Ōmae Station opened on 7 March 1971 as the new terminus of the Agatsuma Line, which on the same day was extended westward from Naganohara (today's Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi). It has been unstaffed since opening and was absorbed into the JR East network at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The station sits at an elevation of 840.4 metres above sea level and is the westernmost ordinary-rail station in both Gunma Prefecture and the wider Kantō region. The original plan extended the line on through Tsumagoi to Toyono on what is now the Hokushinano Line, but that section was never built. Suica acceptance arrived with the station's incorporation into the Tokyo near-suburban zone on 1 October 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ōmae is the westernmost ordinary-rail station in Gunma Prefecture and in the Kantō region as a whole; the line was originally planned to push on to Toyono on the present-day Hokushinano Line, but that extension was never built.