History
Arimagawa Station traces its origins to a long campaign by local residents who began petitioning for a stop on the projected Hokuriku Main Line around 1902 and continued through the Second World War. The site finally opened as a temporary halt on 1 September 1946 and was upgraded to a full passenger station on 1 July 1947. Parcel handling ended and the station was unstaffed on 13 April 1970. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. On 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension between Nagano and Kanazawa, the station was transferred to the third-sector Echigo Tokimeki Railway and now sits on its Nihonkai Hisui Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Residents who wanted the station petitioned all the way up to the Ministry of Communications and Transportation in 1944 during wartime, but did not succeed until a post-war 1946 application; the wooden building from that opening still stands.