History
Naoetsu Station opened on 1886-08-15 with the inauguration of national-railway service between Sekiyama and Naoetsu. The station was relocated to its present site on 1898-08-01 and rebuilt in 1940. JR East and JR West took joint control on 1987-04-01 at JNR privatisation. From 2015-03-14, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, parallel conventional lines were transferred to the third-sector Echigo Tokimeki Railway, and Naoetsu became the boundary station between the Myōkō Haneuma Line (former JR East Shinetsu Main Line) and the Nihonkai Hisui Line (former JR West Hokuriku Main Line). The current cruise-ship-style station building dates from 2000.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The current station building, opened in 2000, was designed to resemble a luxury cruise ship in keeping with Naoetsu's port-town character.