History
Ōgata Station opened on 11 February 1957 as an unstaffed Japanese National Railways stop on the Hakushin Line, the suburban route linking Niigata to Shibata. A second track was laid in to twin-track the line on 18 September 1979. JR East took over the station with the privatisation of the JNR on 1 April 1987. The southern plaza opened on 28 September 1998, and the station was rebuilt and staffed on 1 March 2005 when automatic ticket gates were installed; Suica became valid on 21 January 2006. The northern bus loop began receiving Niigata Kōtsū services on 13 April 2015. The platforms are two opposed side platforms linked by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In May 2006 Niigata Prefecture announced a plan to rename the station "Niigata Airport-mae" and run a shuttle bus to the terminal, but the change was shelved because the station lies some five kilometres from the airport.