History
Ujidanchi-mae Station opened on 20 February 1908 with the final Ino Line completion (the Kōnai–Edagawa section). It was originally called Uji-gakkō-mae (宇治学校前停留場) and was renamed Ujidanchi-mae on 3 November 1976. The stop sits at the western foot of Kōnai-zaka, the pass that separates Ino town from Kōchi City — the Ino Line tracks climb a 29 ‰ gradient east of here to crest the pass and reach the next stop, Kōnai. The 892 m gap between this stop and Kōnai is the longest stop-to-stop distance on Tosaden Kōtsū. The stop passed to Tosaden Kōtsū on 1 October 2014 with the operator merger.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The 1976 rename — from Uji-gakkō-mae ("in front of Uji school") to Ujidanchi-mae ("in front of the Uji housing complex") — tracks the postwar suburbanisation of the area: the school that gave the original name its identity was overtaken in significance by the new Uji housing complex.