Station

Miyoshicho

三好町

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Miyoshicho
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Miyoshichō Station opened on 17 June 1921 as Miyoshichō San-chōme Station on the Ueda Onsen Electric Tramway network and was renamed Miyoshichō in December 1927, when the station was moved onto a dedicated right-of-way. On 1 September 1939 it was redesignated Hikōjō-guchi Station, serving an Imperial Japanese Army airfield established on what is now the Ueda Chikuma High School site, before reverting to Miyoshichō at the end of the war in 1945. The station has remained an unstaffed single-platform halt throughout its operational history, and in August 2016 it received station number BE03 under the Ueda Electric Railway Bessho Line numbering scheme.

Notes

During the Second World War the station was briefly renamed Hikōjō-guchi ("Airfield Entrance") because it served the Imperial Japanese Army airfield laid out on the land now occupied by Ueda Chikuma High School.

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