Arai (Niigata)

Weekday departures: 46/day · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:24 / 23:03

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 5 May 2026.

• Myoko Haneuma Line: Kita-Arai ⇄ Nihongi

Arai Station opened on 15 August 1886 as a Japanese government railway stop on the newly built Naoetsu-to-Sekiyama section that became the Shinetsu Main Line; freight handling began five days later. The station serves the centre of what is now Myōkō, Niigata. A single-storey reinforced-concrete station building replaced the previous one in 1962, paid for in part by Arai City through a railway construction bond. Upon the 1987 privatisation of JNR it passed to JR East and JR Freight. On 14 March 2015, with the Hokuriku Shinkansen extended to Kanazawa, the parallel Shinetsu Main Line was transferred to the third-sector Echigo Tokimeki Railway, which now operates Arai on the Myōkō Haneuma Line.

To distinguish it from the unrelated Nii Station on the Bantan Line in Hyōgo (both written 新井駅), tickets here used to be marked "(Shin)-Arai" before the 2015 third-sector transfer.