History
Hachisu Station opened on 20 October 1921 as a halt of the Iiyama Railway. With the wartime nationalisation of the Iiyama Railway on 1 June 1944, the route became the Iiyama Line under the Ministry of Transport and Communications (later JNR), and the halt was upgraded to a station. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR East. The line was suspended on 12 July 1995 due to the 7.11 flood disaster, reopening on 18 July that year. The station building was refurbished between August and December 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The 2014 refurbishment was designed around the concept "the changing seasons of the eternal Chikuma River and the scenes of the song Furusato". The station is built across the precinct of the adjacent Eikoku-ji temple.