History
Irihirose Station opened on 1 November 1942 as an intermediate stop on the initial western section of the Tadami Line between Koide and Ōshirakawa, in what is now Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 10 September 1976, and the station became contracted from 1 April 1981. Parcel service ended on 1 February 1984, and the station was destaffed on 14 March 1985. Operations passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The original wooden station building was demolished in November 1988 and replaced by the current reinforced-concrete two-storey building, completed on 6 December 1988 and combined with the "Snow Country Tourism Hall." Simplified contracting ended in April 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current 1988 station building is a combined facility known as the "Snow Country Tourism Hall," and contains a time capsule sealed for the 100th anniversary of Irihirose village.