History
Ōshirakawa Station opened on 1 November 1942 as the terminus of the western section of the Tadami Line, extended from Koide by the Ministry of Railways and located in present-day Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture. The station served as the line's terminus until 1971, when the section between Ōshirakawa and Tadami was completed and joined the previously disconnected western and eastern halves of the Tadami Line. The line passed to the Japanese National Railways in 1949, and the station was absorbed into the East Japan Railway Company network upon the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The current station building, jointly constructed with a local nature-activity centre, was completed in December 1988, and the station was destaffed on 1 April 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.