History
Shiozawa Station opened on 18 November 1923 as a general station on the Joetsu North Line of the Japanese Government Railways. It served the old post-town of Shiozawa on the Mikuni Highway, now part of Minamiuonuma in Niigata. The station building was rebuilt in 1956. Freight handling ceased in 1974, baggage in 1984, and the station was destaffed in 1985. Upon the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East's Niigata branch. The current wooden-look steel-frame station building, designed to harmonise with the restored Shiozawa Makinodori townscape, opened on 4 October 2012. Ticket-window service ended in 2022 and the station has been unstaffed ever since.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 2012 station building is steel-framed but faces a wooden façade with a continuous "gangi" eave, designed to match the restored Edo-period post-town street that runs through Shiozawa Makinodori.