History
Unazuki Station serves as the riverside terminus of the Kurobe Gorge Railway, the narrow-gauge line that climbs into the Kurobe gorge from Unazuki Onsen. The route began in 1925 as a construction railway built by Nippon Denryoku to support hydropower works upstream, opening as a private industrial line between this station and Nekomata in 1926. Kansai Electric Power Company started authorised passenger service on 16 November 1953, when the modern station was inaugurated. On 1 July 1971 operations were transferred to the newly established Kurobe Gorge Railway, a subsidiary spun off the previous May. The present steel-framed two-storey station building, with a large pitched roof, was renovated in 1992.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.