Etchu-Nakagawa

Known weekday departures: 35/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 35/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:00 / 23:15

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Himi Line: Nomachi (Toyama) ⇄ Takaoka

Etchū-Nakagawa Station opened on 1 April 1916 as Nakagawa simplified-stop on the Chūetsu Railway, between Takaoka and Nōmachi. The stop was renamed Nakagawa stopping station in 1917 and became Etchū-Nakagawa upon the nationalisation of the Chūetsu Railway on 1 September 1920, when the route became the JNR Chūetsu Line. In 1942 the Takaoka–Fushiki segment was reassigned to the Himi Line. Operations were progressively scaled down, with passenger-and-parcel handling from 1974 and parcel handling abolished in 1984. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station came under JR West. From July 2001 the station became a simplified-commission station, and ICOCA IC service began on 14 March 2026. The wooden station building's exterior was painted by students of Takaoka Crafts Senior High School and has been refreshed in the same school's design.

In July 2001, students in the design course of Toyama Prefectural Takaoka Kōgei High School painted illustrations on the theme of the four seasons on the exterior walls of the station building, and in August 2009 the walls were repainted to a design by students of the same school.