History
Nakano Station opened on 17 June 1921 as a stop on Ueda Onsen Dentetsu's Kawanishi Line. On 19 March 1939 the line was renamed the Bessho Line, and on 1 September of the same year the company was renamed Ueda Dentetsu. The station passed to Ueda-Maruko Dentetsu after a merger on 21 October 1943, and the company was renamed Ueda Kōtsū on 31 May 1969. Following the spin-off of the railway operations into a subsidiary on 3 October 2005 the station reverted to Ueda Dentetsu. Station numbering was introduced in August 2016, and Nakano was assigned the number BE12.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Nakano now has only a single side platform, the station retains land and overhead wires for two opposed platforms; according to a Ueda-Maruko Dentetsu company history, on 30 June 1943 the station was officially demoted from a 'crossing station' (停車場) to a 'halt' (停留場). The station was once staffed, then ran for a time as a simple commission stop with tickets sold from a shop in front of the station, and finally became unstaffed in the Shōwa-50s after the shop's ticket sales ended. The shop has since closed and the building has been removed.