Station

Kameda

亀田

Kameda
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Kameda Station opened on 20 November 1897 with the Hokuetsu Railway's line from Nuttari to Ichinokido, joining the national network when that company was nationalised on 1 August 1907. JR East took over operations on 1 April 1987. A 1928-vintage west-side building stood until the early 2000s, when JR Niigata, the prefecture and Kameda town launched a major rebuild aided by national town-development funds. An interim east entrance opened on 1 June 1999, and the present elevated station with an east-west free passage entered service on 1 October 2005. The east and west plazas were completed in 2008 and 2009 respectively, after Kameda merged into Niigata City in March 2005.

Notes

The free passage on the west side of the station connects via a pedestrian deck to a multi-use municipal centre whose lower two floors are a free covered bicycle park, where reused abandoned cycles are loaned out as the area's rental fleet.

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