History
Kita-Nagaoka Station opened on 1 November 1915 as Jōoka Station on the Japanese government railway in what is now the city of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. It was renamed Kita-Nagaoka on 20 July 1951 following a local renaming campaign. A private dedicated siding ran to the Hokuetsu Paper Manufacturing factory until freight and parcel handling were abolished in February 1984. Through the 1987 privatization of Japanese National Railways the station passed to the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It became unstaffed on 1 April 1995, joined the expanded Niigata Suica area in March 2008, and received a new station building in July 2014. The island platform sits beside elevated Jōetsu Shinkansen tracks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
After the station became unstaffed in 1995, the former ticket office was leased out as a pottery studio for several years.