History
Oshikiri Station opened on 1 September 1901 as a station of the private Hokuetsu Railway in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. Hokuetsu Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1907 and the route became part of the Shin'etsu Main Line under Imperial Government Railways. Freight handling ended in October 1970 and parcel service in February 1984. The station passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 and was converted to simplified-commission operation in December 1993. The present station building dates from 1995, and the station became fully unstaffed in April 2007. Suica service began on 15 March 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform layout was once two-sided with three tracks but has been simplified to two opposing side platforms on two tracks linked by a footbridge.