History
Arahama Station opened on 15 June 1915 on the Echigo Line, 6.6 kilometres from the line's terminus at Kashiwazaki Station. The stop is located in the village of Kariwa in Kariwa District, Niigata Prefecture, and consists of a single ground-level side platform serving a bidirectional track. Operations passed from Japanese National Railways to JR East on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. The present unstaffed station building was completed in 2008. As a small rural stop the station does not support the Suica farecard, but it remains the main rail access point for the surrounding coastal community on the Sea of Japan side of the Echigo Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The present station building dates from 2008, replacing the earlier JNR-era structure.