History
Echigo-Ōshima Station opened on 10 August 1931 on the Yonesaka Line in the village of Sekikawa, Niigata Prefecture. The station is sited 83.5 rail kilometres from the line's terminus at Yonezawa and consists of a single ground-level side platform serving one bi-directional track. The station passed from Japanese National Railways to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and remains an unattended halt managed remotely.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.