History
Uchino Station opened on 25 August 1912 with the Echigo Railway's Yoshida–Hakusan section. On 1 October 1927 the Echigo Railway was nationalised and the line became the government Echigo Line. Freight handling ended on 1 November 1971, and the previous-generation station building entered service on 4 November 1971 (used through February 2013). The Niigata Flood of 26 June 1978 damaged the bridge over the Shinkawa between Echigo-Akatsuka and Uchino on 10 July 1978; a temporary stopping point was set up in front of Niigata City Uchino Junior High School with foot connection between trains; service was restored on 10 August 1978. Parcel handling ended on 1 February 1984. A Midori no Madoguchi reserved-ticket counter opened on 18 January 1987, and the station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at the JNR privatisation. The Gakkō-guchi rear exit opened on 2 July 1988. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 9 December 2004, and Suica became usable on 21 January 2006. The KIOSK kiosk closed on 27 March 2011 along with the removal of the pay phone and coin lockers. A temporary station building entered service on 16 February 2013 ahead of the rebuild, operations were outsourced in October 2013, and the provisional elevated station building opened on 27 September 2014. The temporary station building and the old footbridge connecting platforms 1 and 2 were removed in April 2015. The wider station-area redevelopment was completed on 26 March 2017, with bus service partly extended into the south-exit rotary from the previous day's Niigata Kōtsū timetable change. The Midori no Madoguchi counter closed on 31 January 2024, and a Talking Reserved-Seat Ticket Machine was introduced on 1 February 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The rebuild from a ground-level station with separate west and east buildings into a fully overhead station with a north-south passage was part of Niigata City's "Niigata Transport Strategy Plan". Total project cost was ¥2.5 billion, and the station design was put to user vote. Although the rebuild was originally targeted for FY2012, construction of the temporary station building only began in October 2012; the temporary building opened on 16 February 2013, and the new overhead station building opened on 27 September 2014 with a ceremony at 10:00 a.m. featuring a performance by Uchino Elementary School pupils.