Echigo-Hirose Station

Railway station in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Preceding station	JR East			Following station
Yabukami towards Koide		Tadami Line		Uonuma-Tanaka towards Aizu-Wakamatsu

Location
Echigo-Hirose Station Location within JR Tadami Line Show map of JR Tadami Line Echigo-Hirose Station Echigo-Hirose Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Echigo-Hirose Station (越後広瀬駅, Echigo-Hirose-eki) is a railway station in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Echigo-Hirose Station is served by the Tadami Line, and is 129.5 kilometers from terminus of the line at Aizu-Wakamatsu.

Station layout

The station consists of one ground-level side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended.

History

Echigo-Hirose Station opened on 1 November 1942, as an intermediate station on the initial western section of the Tadami Line between Koide and Ōshirakawa.^[1] Along with the rest of the Tadami Line, the station came under the ownership of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1949, and was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987.