Omigawa (Niigata)

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Ōmigawa Station opened on 28 July 1899 by the Hokuetsu Railway on the Shin'etsu Main Line in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, and came under state ownership when that private railway was nationalised in 1907. Freight handling ceased in 1961, parcel handling and staffing ended in 1971, and following the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to the East Japan Railway Company. On 16 July 2007 the station building, platforms and adjacent line were damaged by a landslide triggered by the Chūetsu offshore earthquake; rail traffic resumed on 13 September 2007 and a new station building was completed on 25 March 2008, sitting close to the Sea of Japan with two opposing side platforms.

The station, together with Umi-Shibaura Station on the Tsurumi Line and others, is described as "the station closest to the sea in Japan," and is also sung of in the Hokuriku volume (Book 4) of the 1900 "Railway Song" (Tetsudō Shōka).