History
Kasashima Station opened on 1 July 1952 on the Shin'etsu Main Line in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. With the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company, and a new station building was completed in 2004. The station is located approximately 27 kilometres from the line's terminus at Naoetsu and is unattended, consisting of two elevated unnumbered opposed side platforms connected by a passage underneath and serving two tracks. National Route 8 runs in the immediate vicinity.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.