History
Echigo-Hayakawa Station opened on 31 July 1924 on the Uetsu Main Line in the city of Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, when the section from Murakami to Nezugaseki was completed. The unstaffed station, 71.4 kilometres from the line's starting point at Niitsu, sits directly across a road from the Sea of Japan coast and has two ground-level opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge. It passed to East Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The Twilight Express sleeper service from Osaka to Sapporo called at the station until it was retired in 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since May 2012 a retired JR East employee has served as the station's honorary stationmaster, leading volunteer beautification work around the unstaffed building.