History
Nagatori opened on 1 September 1943 as the Nagatori Signal Post of the Ministry of Railways and was upgraded to a full station on 15 December 1953, taking the name Nagatori Station. Located in the Nishi-Nagatori district of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, it lies on the Shin'etsu Main Line, 50.8 kilometres from the line's terminus at Naoetsu. Parcel handling ended and the station was destaffed on 1 December 1971. Operations passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 with privatisation. The single island platform stands on an embankment, connected to the platform-level station building below by an underground passage.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Until the Shōwa 40s (mid-1960s and after) the station was the rail access for Nagatori Onsen's "Sakata-kan" inn, which closed when the inn was forced to vacate for the line's double-tracking work.