Echigo-Kawaguchi

Weekday departures: 33/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 35/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:02 / 23:03

Busiest hour in the available data: 15:00–16:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Joetsu Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Iiyama Line: no timetable data

• Joetsu Line: Ojiya ⇄ Kita-Horinouchi

Echigo-Kawaguchi Station opened on 5 August 1921 as the terminus of the then-Jōetsu North Line when the section from Higashi-Ojiya (present-day Ojiya) was completed, and was extended toward Echigo-Horinouchi the following year. The Tōkamachi Line (later Iiyama Line) began running here in 1927, making the station a junction between the Jōetsu and Iiyama systems. The full Jōetsu Line opened in 1931, bringing through services from Ueno. Following privatization of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station joined JR East. Damage from the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake briefly suspended services, and the present station building dates from a 2016 renewal.

The station is the northernmost point inside the Shinshu One-Day Pass area, despite lying in Niigata Prefecture.