Iragawa

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Iragawa Station opened on 18 March 1923 with the inauguration of the Rikuu West Line section between Sanze and Atsumi (now Atsumi Onsen). It became a Uetsu Line station on 31 July 1924, and on 20 November 1925 it was incorporated into the Uetsu Main Line. The section between Atsumi and Iragawa was double-tracked on 29 September 1970. Freight and parcel handling ended on 1 September 1972, leaving the station unattended. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). When the line was double-tracked in 1977 the alignment was shifted slightly towards the hills, and the Shin-Iragawa Tunnel, built east of the station at that time, carries the up line.

The New Iragawa Tunnel, built when the tracks were relocated to the mountain side during double-tracking in 1977, is an unusual combined rail-and-road tunnel, partitioned in half internally so that the seaward side carries the up line and the mountain side carries a roadway.