Station

Ishiji

石地

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Ishiji
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Ishiji Station opened on 11 November 1912 on what is now the Echigo Line in the city of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. The single-platform stop sits 18.7 kilometers from the line terminus at Kashiwazaki Station. When Japanese National Railways was privatized on 1 April 1987, control passed to the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is unattended today, and Suica IC cards cannot be used there. It formerly had two opposed platforms with a passing loop, which was removed in 1991 when the track alignment near the station was improved, leaving a single bi-directional track. The present station building dates from 1992, when it was rebuilt and the station's simplified ticketing agency was discontinued, leaving it completely unstaffed.

Notes

For the station's 111th anniversary in 2023, students from the Niigata Institute of Technology and a local elementary school collaborated on a renovation of the building.

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