History
Echigo-Katakai Station opened on 30 November 1933 on the Yonesaka Line in the village of Sekikawa, Niigata Prefecture. It sits 73.1 rail kilometres from the line's terminus at Yonezawa. The station consists of a single ground-level side platform serving one bi-directional track. Operations passed from Japanese National Railways to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station is unattended, and its building doubles as a local public assembly hall for the surrounding community.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building serves a second function as a community meeting hall for the village of Sekikawa, an arrangement common on rural Yonesaka Line halts but unusual on the wider JR East network.