History
Maebashi Station opened on 20 November 1889 as a Ryōmō Railway terminus on the Tone River's east bank, replacing an earlier Maebashi Station that Nippon Railway had built on the west bank in August 1884. The much-loved 1927 western-style wooden depot was demolished as part of a Ryōmō Line elevation project, with the current elevated station entering service on 16 October 1986. In December 2007 the E'site Maebashi commercial concourse opened beneath the viaduct, and in 2020 the station was renovated to JR East's "Ecoste" environmental specification. The "Akagi" limited express ceased serving the station from 13 March 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since the "Akagi" limited express was withdrawn from Maebashi in 2021, the city is the only prefectural capital on the JR network whose main station has no scheduled limited-express service.