Arimagawa

Weekday departures: 38/day · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:24 / 23:25

Busiest hour: 16:00–17:00 (4)

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• Nihonkai Hisui Line: Tanihama ⇄ Nadachi

Arimagawa Station traces its origins to a long campaign by local residents who began petitioning for a stop on the projected Hokuriku Main Line around 1902 and continued through the Second World War. The site finally opened as a temporary halt on 1 September 1946 and was upgraded to a full passenger station on 1 July 1947. Parcel handling ended and the station was unstaffed on 13 April 1970. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. On 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension between Nagano and Kanazawa, the station was transferred to the third-sector Echigo Tokimeki Railway and now sits on its Nihonkai Hisui Line.

Residents who wanted the station petitioned all the way up to the Ministry of Communications and Transportation in 1944 during wartime, but did not succeed until a post-war 1946 application; the wooden building from that opening still stands.