History
Kabatake Station opened on 17 June 1921 on the Ueda Onsen Dentetsu Kawanishi Line in what is today the city of Ueda, Nagano Prefecture. With the March 1939 line-name change the station was reassigned to the Bessho Line, and it then passed through a series of corporate successions: Ueda Marushi Dentetsu in 1943, Ueda Kōtsū in 1969, and the present Ueda Electric Railway in 2005 on the spin-off of the rail division. The station building was rebuilt in 1990. It has remained an unstaffed halt with a single side platform throughout its operational history, and received the station number BE07 with the August 2016 introduction of station numbering on the Bessho Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's ungainly local pronunciation — "Kabatake" rather than the more obvious "Kamihata" — derives from the original village name; the neighbouring station of Terashita also lies within the same Kabatake area.