Kita-Otari

Weekday departures: 14/day · Sat & holiday departures: 14/day

First / last departure (weekday): 7:05 / 21:33

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Oito Line: Hiraiwa ⇄ Nakatsuchi

Kita-Otari Station opened on 15 August 1957 as a Japanese National Railways station, when the Ōito Line's Nakatsuchi–Kotaki section opened. Freight and parcel handling were withdrawn year-round in December 1973, when the station also became unstaffed year-round. It passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. In July 1995 a torrential-rain disaster sent debris flows into the station yard, burying it, and restoration work ran for two years and four months. The 2014 Nagano-ken Kamishiro Fault earthquake forced another temporary suspension of services between Shinano-Ōmachi and Itoigawa.