History
Matsudai Station opened on 22 March 1997, the day the Hokuhoku Line itself opened end-to-end between Muikamachi and Saigata. Operated by the third-sector Hokuetsu Express, the station sits in the Matsudai district of Tōkamachi, Niigata and is 29.2 kilometers from the line's starting point at Muikamachi. The station name was rendered in hiragana to read more approachably and to avoid clashing with the then-extant Matsushiro Station (松代) on the Nagano Electric Railway Yashiro Line. The station shares its building with the Matsudai Furusato Kaikan michi-no-eki and serves as a tourism gateway for the Matsunoyama area.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When trains pass at speed, the station plays the same warning melody used by JR West's Yonago branch, a holdover from the line's earlier high-speed running.