Station

Ishiji

石地

Ishiji
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Ishiji Station opened on 11 November 1912 on what is now the Echigo Line in the city of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. The single-platform stop sits 18.7 kilometers from the line terminus at Kashiwazaki Station. When Japanese National Railways was privatized on 1 April 1987, control passed to the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is unattended today, and Suica IC cards cannot be used there. Originally built with passing-loop facilities, it has been reduced to a single bi-directional track. The small wooden building dates from the early 1990s, when staffing ended and a more modest shelter replaced the older structure.

Notes

For the station's 111th anniversary in 2023, students from the Niigata Institute of Technology and a local elementary school collaborated on a renovation of the building.

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