History
Oyashirazu Station opened on 15 October 1912 as part of the Japanese Government Railways' Hokuriku Main Line extension between Tomari and Ōmi. The station, located on the perilous Oyashirazu coastline in Itoigawa, Niigata, handled both passengers and freight, and a Shin-Etsu Chemical siding once dispatched limestone to Kuroi and Takefu. Freight ended on 1 May 1977, baggage on 1 February 1984, and the station became unstaffed in April 1985. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it joined JR West, then on 14 March 2015 it was transferred to Echigo Tokimeki Railway's Nihonkai Hisui Line when the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension to Kanazawa opened.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The wooden station building was added to Japan's Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in February 2023, and the approach melody from the Naoetsu-bound platform is "The Village Blacksmith".