History
The station opened on 5 April 1928 on the Ichibata Electric Railway's Kita-Matsue Line as Kososhi Station (許曽志駅), with the kanji updated in 1946 while the reading was retained. On 1 April 1964 it was renamed Furue Station after a relocation that consolidated the former Hamasada and Kososhi stops. On 2 April 2001 it was rechristened Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum Mae Station to advertise an adjacent museum dedicated to Louis Comfort Tiffany. When the museum closed in March 2007, the station was renamed Matsue English Garden Mae on 21 May 2007 after the surrounding garden, which remained open.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
During its 2001–2007 stint as Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum Mae Station, the name held the record as Japan's longest railway-station name at 18 written characters and 23 kana readings.