History
Echigo-Nakazato Station opened on 1 September 1931 on the Jōetsu Line, in what is now the town of Yuzawa, Minamiuonuma District, Niigata Prefecture, where the line climbs through the Mikuni mountains between Takasaki and Niigata. The station sits 87.4 kilometres from the Jōetsu Line's southern terminus at Takasaki, and is the gateway to the Echigo-Nakazato ski resort. A new station building was completed in 1980. Upon the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station came under the control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It has one island platform and one side platform, connected by a footbridge, and is unattended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station serves as the access point for the Echigo-Nakazato Ski Resort, located in the heavy-snow Mikuni-mountains stretch of the Jōetsu Line.