Himekawa

Weekday departures: 18/day · Sat & holiday departures: 18/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:05 / 22:12

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Ōito Line: Itoigawa ⇄ Kubiki-Ōno

Himekawa Station opened on 1 November 1986 on the Japanese National Railways Ōito Line in Itoigawa, Niigata, and is the most recently built station still operating on the line. It was a petitioned station: the City of Itoigawa paid the entire 13-million-yen construction cost so that visitors and outpatients of the new Himekawa General Hospital, which served a medically underserved area, would have rail access before the hospital opened. The unattended station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. Service was briefly suspended in November 2014 after the Nagano-Kamishiro Fault earthquake closed the line.

The hospital that justified building the station, Himekawa Hospital, went bankrupt in 2007 and the empty building still stands across National Route 148 from the platform.