History
The station was established on 8 September 1965 as the Maebashi-Byōin-mae signal stop, sited where the Jōmō Line begins climbing from the Kantō plain toward the foothills of Mount Akagi. It was named for the Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Hospital just north of the line. The signal stop was upgraded to an unattended passenger station on 10 April 1994 under the name Junkanki-byō Center Station, reflecting the hospital's contemporaneous rebranding as a cardiovascular centre. When the hospital changed its name a second time, the station followed on 1 June 2001, becoming Shinzō-Kekkan Center ("Heart and Blood Vessel Centre").
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name contains two organ names — heart and blood vessels — making it one of the most unusual anatomy-themed station names in Japan. Trains approaching the platform are announced by a recording of the song "Listening to Olivia."