History
Aōzu Station opened on 20 July 1914 as a stop on the Echigo Railway, slotted in between Nishi-Yoshida and Jizōdō (the present Bunsui). It was promoted from a halt to a full station on 20 June 1916 and brought into the Japanese Government Railways' Echigo Line when the Echigo Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1927. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1970, the present station building entered service in November 1970, and CTC installation in May 1982 prompted withdrawal of station staff alongside the end of parcel service. Control passed to JR East on 1 April 1987. The simple ticket vending machine was replaced by a boarding-certificate machine on 26 January 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.