History
Kuwagawa Station opened on 31 July 1924 with the inauguration of the Murakami–Nezugaseki section of what is now the Uetsu Main Line, 78.3 km from the line's starting point at Niitsu. Telegraph services ended in 1963, and freight and parcel handling ceased on 1 September 1972 along with the conversion to unstaffed operation. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new combined railway-and-roadside-station building, sharing accommodation with the "Sasagawa-nagare Yūhi-kaikan" roadside station on National Route 345, opened on 10 November 1993. A waiting room was added in October 2019. The "Kairi" limited-express tourist train calls here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building is fused with the "Sasagawa-nagare Yūhi-kaikan" roadside station on National Route 345; of the building's 907.7 m² floor area, only 43 m² belongs to JR East — essentially just a waiting room.