History
Tōkōji Station began on 29 May 1944 as a signal stop on the Ministry of Railways' Shin'etsu Main Line in what is now Sanjō, Niigata Prefecture. It was promoted to a full station on 1 July 1953, then unstaffed and put under simplified contract operation on 1 October 1970. Two opposed ground-level side platforms serve two tracks, connected by a footbridge. The station passed to JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatization of Japanese National Railways, and joined the Niigata-area Suica zone on 15 March 2008. It now sits 91.1 kilometers from the line's other end at Naoetsu.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station carries the name of the nearby Tōkōji settlement, the platform itself stands roughly 300 metres from that village, surrounded on all sides by paddy fields.