Shiozawa

Weekday departures: 41/day · Sat & holiday departures: 43/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:38 / 23:39

Busiest hour: 11:00–12:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

• Joetsu Line: Muikamachi ⇄ Joetsu-Kokusai-Ski-jo-mae

Shiozawa Station opened on 18 November 1923 as a general station on the Joetsu North Line of the Japanese Government Railways. It served the old post-town of Shiozawa on the Mikuni Highway, now part of Minamiuonuma in Niigata. The station building was rebuilt in 1956. Freight handling ceased in 1974, baggage in 1984, and the station was destaffed in 1985. Upon the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East's Niigata branch. The current wooden-look steel-frame station building, designed to harmonise with the restored Shiozawa Makinodori townscape, opened on 4 October 2012. Ticket-window service ended in 2022 and the station has been unstaffed ever since.

The 2012 station building is steel-framed but faces a wooden façade with a continuous "gangi" eave, designed to match the restored Edo-period post-town street that runs through Shiozawa Makinodori.