History
Terashita Station opened on 17 June 1921 as a station on the Ueda Onsen Dentetsu Kawanishi Line in the present-day city of Ueda, Nagano Prefecture. After the route was renamed the Bessho Line in March 1939 the station passed through a series of corporate reorganisations — Ueda Marushi Dentetsu (1943), Ueda Kōtsū (1969), and finally Ueda Electric Railway (2005, on the spin-off of the rail division). It has remained an unattended halt with a single ground-level side platform throughout its operational history. Station numbering was introduced in August 2016, and Terashita was assigned BE06 on the Bessho Line numbering scheme.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name is taken from its location "below the temple" — specifically Chōsei-ji, founded in 1568 — and the local place name "Terashita" only entered use after the station itself had opened.