History
Kita-Horinouchi Station traces back to the Echigo-Shimojima signal post, opened on 20 September 1944, which was promoted to a full station and renamed Kita-Horinouchi on 15 February 1950. Parcel handling ended in 1970, at which point the station became unstaffed. On 1 April 1987, with the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it passed to JR East. The current station building was completed in December 1998. The station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected by a footbridge; only the northern building retains staff facilities, now operating purely as an unstaffed waiting area administered from Echigo-Yuzawa.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.