Echigo-Shimoseki Station

Echigo-Shimoseki Station
Echigo-Shimoseki Station; 越後下関駅
	Echigo-Shimoseki Station in August 2004
Location	Shimoseki, Sekikawa-mura, Iwafune-gun, Niigata-ken 959-3265; Japan
Coordinates	38°5′24.28″N 139°33′35.70″E
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	■ Yonesaka Line
Distance	79.7 km from Yonezawa
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Status	Staffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	10 August 1931
Traffic
Passengers (FY2017)	90
Services
Location
	Echigo-Shimoseki Station Location within Japan

Echigo-Shimoseki Station (越後下関駅, Echigo-Shimoseki-eki) is a railway station on the Yonesaka Line in the village of Sekikawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Echigo-Shimoseki Station is served by the Yonesaka Line, and is located 79.7 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Yonezawa Station.

The station has two opposed ground-level side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge.

1	■ Yonesaka Line	for Oguni, Iwaizumi, and Yonezawa
2	■ Yonesaka Line	for Sakamachi

Echigo-Shimoseki Station opened on 10 August 1931. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 90 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[1]

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各駅の乗車人員 (2017年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2017)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

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