Nishiyama (Niigata)

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Nishiyama Station opened on 11 November 1912 as a station on the Echigo Railway in what is now Nishiyama-machi in the city of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. The line was nationalized on 1 October 1927, after which the station served the JNR Echigo Line. Freight handling ended in 1976 and the station was reduced to a contracted facility on 31 May 1982 with the introduction of centralized traffic control. Parcel handling ended in February 1984 and the station was de-staffed that April. With the 1 April 1987 privatization of JNR it joined the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The current building was completed in 1992. Two opposed side platforms remain, connected by a footbridge.

The station once prospered as a shipping base for the Nishiyama oil field.