History
Ojimaya Station opened on 20 April 1913 as Yoita Station, one of the original stops on the Echigo Railway's Izumozaki–Jizōdō section. It was renamed Ojimaya Station on 1 October 1915 to reflect its actual location in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. The Echigo Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1927, becoming part of the Ministry of Railways' Echigo Line. Freight handling ended on 1 November 1971, contract operation began in 1982 with CTC introduction, and on 30 November 2004 the simplified contract was lifted and the station fully unstaffed. The station passed to JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatization.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station forecourt features a bronze bust of Kusumi Hidesaburō, founder of the Echigo Railway from which today's Echigo Line descends; the local Kusumi family sake brewery later inspired the manga and Fuji TV drama Natsuko no Sake, which filmed scenes at Ojimaya Station.