History
Tsugawa Station opened on 1 June 1913 as the eastern end of the Railway Agency's Banetsu West Line extension from Mashita, in what was then the merchant town of Tsugawa on the Agano River. The line through to Nozawa was completed on 1 November 1914 after difficult construction on unstable ground south of the station. Freight ended on 8 April 1977 and parcel service on 14 March 1985. Control passed to JR East at JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation, and a Midori-no-Madoguchi opened in October 1991. A new town-house-style station building was completed on 19 September 2009. The Midori-no-Madoguchi closed on 30 September 2021, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 October 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The hall waiting room was remodelled in November 2013 to resemble "Okojirou's house," the character mascot of the SL Banetsu Monogatari steam train that pauses here for about 15 minutes for locomotive watering.