History
Bunsui Station opened on 28 December 1912 as Jizōdō Station, a temporary stop on the Echigo Railway's Yoshida-to-Jizōdō extension. It was moved to its present site on 20 April 1913 when the line was pushed through from Izumozaki, and was brought into the Japanese Government Railways' Echigo Line on 1 October 1927 at nationalisation. Freight ended on 1 September 1976, the station moved to contract operation in May 1982, and on 1 April 1983 it was renamed Bunsui after the contemporary town name. Control passed to JR East on 1 April 1987, the present station building entered service on 10 March 2000, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi closed and the station was destaffed on 11–12 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The pre-2000 station building was styled after the Ōkōzu Diversion Channel's adjustable weir, and the rebuilt 2000 structure echoes the diversion's gate piers in its wall design — a literal architectural nod to the namesake "Bunsui" (water division).