Ueda (Nagano)

Weekday departures: 58/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 64/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:14 / 23:39

Busiest hour in the available data: 10:00–11:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Hokuriku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Shinano Railway Line: no timetable data
• Uedadentetsu Bessho Line: no timetable data

• 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.