Uchino-Nishigaoka

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Uchino-Nishigaoka Station opened on 1 March 2005 on the Echigo Line in Nishi-ku, Niigata, 68.7 kilometres from the line's terminus at Kashiwazaki, as part of the Palette Town Nishi-Niigata residential development. Local residents had long sought a station here, and in 17 May 2000 the local land-readjustment association formally requested one of JR East's Niigata Branch. An agreement signed on 6 February 2004 had the association fund the station building and forecourt. The name "Uchino-Nishigaoka" was chosen by public competition on 16 April 2004, replacing the working name "Nishi-Kōkō-mae" ("West High School Front"). The station accepted Suica from 21 January 2006.

The residential district west of the station, along Niigata Prefectural Route 2, stands on the Niigata sand dune, but the station itself and the new housing laid out around it when it opened sit on reclaimed paddy land only one or two metres above sea level. The "oka" (hill) in the station's name was chosen for the bright image it lends a new town, combined with the station's position west of Uchino.