History
Terao Station opened on 1914-10-20 as a halt of the Echigo Railway, inserted between Sekiya and Uchino, and was upgraded to a full station on 1918-03-25. The Echigo Railway was nationalised on 1927-10-01, placing the station on the state-owned Echigo Line. Freight handling ended on 1960-03-15. The station was rebuilt as an elevated station with a new north entrance around 1986, and it passed to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. Track ballast washed out between Terao and Kobari during the 1998-08-04 Niigata heavy-rain disaster. Automatic ticket gates began operating on 2005-01-20, Suica IC service became available on 2006-01-21, and lifts were installed on the platform and at the south entrance in December 2007. The station serves as a daytime passing point.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Just west of the station, a level crossing over Niigata Prefectural Route 44 is named Nōen Fumikiri ("farm-garden level crossing") — a relic of the time it was built, when a horticultural farm that later became Niigata Yūen amusement park stood next to it.