History
Echigo-Suhara Station opened on 1 November 1942 as an intermediate station on the initial western section of the Tadami Line, then extending from Koide to Ōshirakawa and located in present-day Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture. The line was absorbed into the Japanese National Railways in 1949, and following the privatisation of the JNR on 1 April 1987 the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company. Freight handling was withdrawn in 1976, a new station building was completed in early 1977, and the passing loop was removed and the station placed under simple agency management in 1992; it became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2010. The station now consists of one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.