History
Ashidaki Station was first opened as a temporary halt on 1 April 1937 to support construction of the Shinano-gawa hydroelectric works, then closed on 1 June 1944 when the Iiyama Line was nationalised. Local residents and a village councillor lobbied the line to bring it back as a petitioned stop to ease the commute for high-school students, and the station reopened on 15 July 1960 as a passenger-only unstaffed halt in Tsunan, Niigata. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under JR East. The single side platform sits on a slope above a village south of the line and has no station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ashidaki is the westernmost Iiyama Line station within Niigata Prefecture; the section eastward from here to Echigo-Kawaguchi has been administered by JR East's Niigata Branch since April 2010.