History
Ichiburi Station opened on 15 October 1912 on the Japanese Government Railways' Hokuriku Main Line in Itoigawa, Niigata, on a coastline historically known for the perilous Oyashirazu cliffs. The station passed to JR West with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. On 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger services along the parallel section of the former Hokuriku Main Line were transferred to third-sector operators, and Ichiburi became the boundary station between Ainokaze Toyama Railway to the west and Echigo Tokimeki Railway's Nihonkai Hisui Line to the east. The unstaffed station has one island platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.