History
Yagisawa Station opened on 17 June 1921 as part of the Kawanishi Line of the Ueda Onsen Electric Tramway, predecessor of today's Ueda Electric Railway, in present-day Ueda, Nagano. After successive renamings the line became the Bessho Line in 1939, and through corporate mergers the operator became Ueda-Maruko Electric Railway in 1943, Ueda Kōtsū in 1969, and Ueda Electric Railway in 2005. Station numbering took effect in August 2016, when Yagisawa was assigned the code BE14. The single-platform stop has been unstaffed since the postwar period; land for a future passing loop has been reserved but never built.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station stood in for the fictional "Kisaragi Station" in the 2022 horror film Kisaragi Station, and its sign carries an illustration of railway-mascot character "Yagisawa Mai," named after this station and adjacent Maita.