History
Shimonogō Station opened on 17 June 1921 as a stop on the Kawanishi Line of the Ueda Onsen Electric Tramway, the predecessor of today's Ueda Electric Railway. From 1926 to 1963 it was also the terminus of the Yodakubo Line, later renamed the Nishi-Maruko Line, which the same company operated. Successive corporate mergers placed the station under Ueda-Maruko Electric Railway in 1943, Ueda Kōtsū in 1969, and the present Ueda Electric Railway in 2005, when the rail business was spun off again. The station has one island platform serving two tracks. Station numbering took effect in August 2016, with Shimonogō assigned BE09.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The Ueda Electric Railway has its registered head office located on the station premises, and the site also houses the line's only depot.