Iwafunemachi

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Iwafunemachi Station, on the Uetsu Main Line in the city of Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, opened on 1 November 1914 with the inauguration of the Murakami Line between Nakajō and Murakami. It became part of the Uetsu Line in 1924 and of the Uetsu Main Line proper from 20 November 1925 when the Akatani branch line opened. Freight and all parcel handling were withdrawn on 1 September 1972 when the station became unstaffed. A new station building was completed in December 1980, and the station passed to JR East with the 1987 privatization of Japanese National Railways. The station has a single island platform and a footbridge linking it to the western station building.

Despite the station's name referring to the Iwafune district, the village it primarily served when it opened was the former Nishijinnō (later Kamihayashi) village — the name was chosen because the station was also the nearest stop for the original Iwafune town centre.