Echigo-Nakazato

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:21 / 21:18

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

• Joetsu Line: Iwappara-Ski-jo-mae ⇄ Tsuchitaru

Echigo-Nakazato Station opened on 1 September 1931 on the Jōetsu Line, in what is now the town of Yuzawa, Minamiuonuma District, Niigata Prefecture. The station sits 87.4 kilometres from the starting point of the Jōetsu Line at Takasaki, and is the gateway to the Echigo-Nakazato ski resort. A new station building was completed in 1980. Upon the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station came under the control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It has one island platform and one side platform, connected by a footbridge, and is unattended.

The station serves as the access point for the Echigo-Nakazato Ski Resort.