History
Kashiwazaki Station opened on 1 August 1897 as a station of the Hokuetsu Railway when the Hachisaki–Kashiwazaki section opened, with both passenger and freight services. The Hokuetsu Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1907. The Echigo Railway reached the station on 11 November 1912, and that line was nationalised on 1 October 1927 as the Echigo Line. The present station building was completed on 6 October 1967. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it came under JR East and JR Freight. Suica was extended to the station on 1 April 2014, and the building's interior and exterior were refurbished on a maritime theme on 5 October 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
During the Niigata Chūetsu Offshore Earthquake on 16 July 2007, an Echigo Line passenger train standing at Kashiwazaki Station derailed, with no human casualties but extended service disruption on the Echigo and Shin'etsu lines. The station's freight role has declined since its tank-car-served Nippon Oil refinery siding closed in 1998; today the Kashiwazaki Off-Rail Station handles 12-foot containers by truck shuttle to Minami-Nagaoka Station.