History
Etchū-Nakagawa Station opened on 1 April 1916 as Nakagawa simplified-stop on the Chūetsu Railway, between Takaoka and Nōmachi. The stop was renamed Nakagawa stopping station in 1917 and became Etchū-Nakagawa upon the nationalisation of the Chūetsu Railway on 1 September 1920, when the route became the JNR Chūetsu Line. In 1942 the Takaoka–Fushiki segment was reassigned to the Himi Line. Operations were progressively scaled down, with passenger-and-parcel handling from 1974 and parcel handling abolished in 1984. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station came under JR West. From July 2001 the station became a simplified-commission station, and ICOCA IC service began on 14 March 2026. The wooden station building's exterior was painted by students of Takaoka Crafts Senior High School and has been refreshed in the same school's design.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.