Igashima

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Igashima Station opened on 1 June 1913 with the Railway Agency Shin'etsu Line branch extension from Maoroshi to Tsugawa. No station had been planned for this stretch, but local people petitioned strongly for one and met the cost of the land purchase and house relocations in order to obtain a stop serving the nearby Mochikura mine, which generated heavy freight in the Taishō years, the mine's peak. The line was renamed Iwakoshi on 1 November 1914 and the Ban'etsu West Line on 10 October 1917. Goods handling was withdrawn on 1 December 1973, and parcels handling and staffing on 28 February 1983; the station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987. The current site has no station building; access is via a sheltered footbridge stairway on the west side of the line.

Igashima was built only because local people petitioned for it and covered the cost of the land purchase and house relocations themselves, so that the new line would have a station serving the nearby Mochikura mine, whose peak years came in the Taishō period.