Timetable information
Known weekday departures: 31/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 31/day
First / last known departure (weekday): 6:06 / 23:07
Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (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 3 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).
Adjacent stations
- Joetsu Line: Echigo-Kawaguchi ⇄ Echigo-Horinouchi
Location
History
Kita-Horinouchi Station traces back to the Echigo-Shimojima signal post, opened on 20 September 1944, which was promoted to a full station and renamed Kita-Horinouchi on 15 February 1950. Parcel handling ended in 1970, at which point the station became unstaffed. On 1 April 1987, with the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it passed to JR East. The current station building was completed in December 1998. The station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected by a footbridge; the station's facilities are concentrated in the building on the northern side, and the station is unstaffed, administered from Echigo-Yuzawa.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Mister0124 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-09-02