History
Kameda Station opened on 20 November 1897 with the Hokuetsu Railway's line from Nuttari to Ichinokido, joining the national network when that company was nationalised on 1 August 1907. JR East took over operations on 1 April 1987. A 1928-vintage west-side building stood until the early 2000s, when JR Niigata, the prefecture and Kameda town launched a major rebuild aided by national town-development funds. An interim east entrance opened on 1 June 1999, and the present elevated station with an east-west free passage entered service on 1 October 2005. The east and west plazas were completed in 2008 and 2009 respectively, after Kameda merged into Niigata City in March 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The free passage on the west side of the station connects via a pedestrian deck to a multi-use municipal centre whose lower two floors are a free covered bicycle park, where reused abandoned cycles are loaned out as the area's rental fleet.