History
Daigakumae Station opened on 17 June 1921 as Shimohongō Station on the Ueda Onsen Dentetsu network in present-day Ueda, Nagano Prefecture. It was renamed Honshu Daigaku Mae Station on 1 June 1966 to mark the establishment of the nearby Honshu University campus, and renamed again to its current Daigakumae form on 1 May 1974. The station — operated since the 2005 spin-off of Ueda Kōtsū's rail division by the Ueda Electric Railway — remains an unstaffed halt on the Bessho Line, with a single ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track. Station numbering was introduced in August 2016, assigning Daigakumae the identifier BE08.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Three separate institutions of higher learning — Nagano University, Ueda Women's Junior College, and the Nagano Prefectural Institute of Technology — sit within walking distance of Daigakumae, justifying the station's collective "Daigakumae" (University Front) name despite serving no single university campus.