History
Kakizaki Station opened on 13 May 1897 as a Hokuetsu Railway station on what is now the Shin'etsu Main Line in present-day Jōetsu, Niigata Prefecture, coming under state ownership when the Hokuetsu Railway was nationalised in 1907. Freight handling was withdrawn in 1971 and parcel handling in 1985, and following the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station was absorbed into the East Japan Railway Company. The current building, which uses locally-produced Echigo cedar in its interior and is shaped to reduce wind ingress from the Sea of Japan, entered service in September 2008 and received a Japan Railway Architecture Association award in fiscal 2009. The station became fully unstaffed on 16 March 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.