History
Kurobe-Unazukionsen Station opened on 14 March 2015 with the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Nagano to Kanazawa. The site near Wakaguri in Kurobe had been earmarked for a shinkansen stop since the route was announced in 1982; the choice of Kurobe over Uozu was influenced by the YKK plant within the city. Construction was authorised in October 1993, and after a public naming exercise launched by Kurobe and four neighbouring municipalities, JR West announced the final name on 7 June 2013, combining the city name with the nearby Unazuki hot-spring resort. All Hakutaka services call here; faster Kagayaki trains pass through.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
At seven kanji long, the station name was the longest of any full-gauge shinkansen station at opening; it shared that record from 2016 onward with Okutsugaru-Imabetsu on the Hokkaido Shinkansen.