History
Uramoto Station opened on 28 January 1950 as a Japanese National Railways stop on the Hokuriku Main Line, near a small coastal village in what is now Itoigawa, Niigata. A temporary stop had operated from December 1949. Parcel handling ended on 13 April 1970 and the station was destaffed at the same time, and from 1987 it was administered by JR West. On 14 March 2015, when the Hokuriku Shinkansen was extended from Nagano to Kanazawa, parallel local services on the former Hokuriku Main Line were spun off to the third-sector Echigo Tokimeki Railway, and Uramoto became part of its Nihonkai Hisui Line, where it remains a quiet wayside stop on an embankment overlooking the Sea of Japan.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although ground-level outside, the platforms sit on an embankment so high that, despite the station being inland, the Sea of Japan is visible from them.