Kuroi (Niigata)

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Kuroi Station opened on 1 July 1902 as a freight station of the private Hokuetsu Railway. Passenger service began on 1 September 1906, and the railway was nationalised in August 1907. From 1914 the south side of the station hosted New Kuroi (Shin-Kuroi) Station, the starting point of the narrow-gauge Kubiki Railway light line, whose section from Shin-Kuroi to Hyakkenmachi was abandoned in October 1968. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East for passenger service and to JR Freight for cargo. The current elevated station building and free public passageway opened in 2012, replacing the 1966 structure.

Although the Hokuhoku Line trains pass through Kuroi from the line's opening in 1997, the first scheduled stops at the station were not introduced until the 14 March 2015 timetable revision, after long-running petitions from Jōetsu City citing local industrial commuting needs.