History
Ogikawa Station opened on 1917-09-04 as a Railway Board signal station and was upgraded to a station on 1926-11-20. The Nihon Kotsu Kanko Sha began handling station operations under contract on 1970-10-01. The original building was replaced via a temporary structure starting on 1986-03-19, and the new elevated station building entered service on 1986-12-01 — the first such building in what was then JNR's Niigata Railway Management District. It passed to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation, and a dedicated ticket office (Midori-no-madoguchi) opened on 1991-10-01. Automatic ticket gates began operating on 2004-12-16, and Suica IC service became available on 2006-01-21. From 2014, accessibility works added lifts on the platforms and at the west entrance, all in service by March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the new station building entered service on 1 December 1986, Ogikawa became the first elevated station in what was then JNR's Niigata Railway Management District.