History
Yamamae Station opened on 1 April 1897 as a Nippon Railway station between Ashikaga and Omata, on what is now the Ryōmō Line. The line was nationalised in 1906 and, after Japanese National Railways was privatised on 1 April 1987, the station came under JR East. Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001, and the station became unstaffed on 1 March 2019. A new station building entered service on 7 March 2026, replacing the wooden structure that had stood for most of the twentieth century. It is the closest railway access for Ashikaga University.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yamamae stands at the meeting point of two former villages — Sakanishi and Yamamae — whose names survive in adjacent prefectural-road designations rather than on the modern map.