History
Iwafunemachi Station, on the Uetsu Main Line in the city of Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, opened on 1914-11-01 with the inauguration of the Murakami Line between Nakajō and Murakami. It became part of the Uetsu Line in 1924 and of the Uetsu Main Line proper from 1925-11-20 when the Akatani branch line opened. Freight and all parcel handling were withdrawn on 1972-09-01 when the station became unstaffed. A new station building was completed in December 1980, and the station passed to JR East with the 1987 privatization of Japanese National Railways. The station has a single island platform and a footbridge linking it to the western station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Despite the station's name referring to the Iwafune district, the village it primarily served when it opened was the former Nishijinnō (later Kamibayashi) village — the name was kept because the station was also the nearest stop for the original Iwafune town centre.