Kurobe-Unazuki-Onsen

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Kurobe-Unazukionsen Station opened on 14 March 2015 with the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Nagano to Kanazawa. The site near Wakaguri in Kurobe had been earmarked for a shinkansen stop since the route was announced in 1982; the choice of Kurobe over Uozu was influenced by the YKK plant within the city. The line section was authorised in September 1993 and work began the following month, when the station itself was formally approved. After a public naming exercise launched by Kurobe and four neighbouring municipalities, JR West announced the final name on 7 June 2013, combining the city name with the nearby Unazuki hot-spring resort. All regular Hakutaka services call here, though some extra services pass through; faster Kagayaki trains do not stop.

At seven characters long, the station name was the longest of any full-gauge shinkansen station at opening; it has shared that record since 2016 with Okutsugaru-Imabetsu on the Hokkaido Shinkansen.