Ueda (Nagano)

Weekday departures: 58/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 64/day+

First / last train (weekday): 6:14 / 23:39

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (5)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Shinano Railway Line: Karuizawa
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Nagano ⇄ Sakudaira

Ueda Station opened on 15 August 1888 when the JGR line from Nagano was extended here; it was pushed on to Karuizawa that December. The Takasaki–Niigata route was renamed the Shin'etsu Line in 1909 and the Shin'etsu Main Line in 1914. Ueda Onsen Tramway, forerunner of today's Ueda Electric Railway, reached the station on 15 August 1924 across a new Chikuma River bridge. JR East assumed control at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. With the Nagano Shinkansen opening on 1 October 1997, the parallel Karuizawa–Shinonoi conventional segment was transferred to the third-sector Shinano Railway.

Since 2010 the Ueda Electric Railway platform has used Tatsuro Yamashita's "Bokura no Natsu no Yume" — theme song of the locally set film Summer Wars — as its departure melody.