Ōmi (Niigata)

Weekday departures: 36/day · Sat & holiday departures: 36/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:19 / 23:46

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Nihonkai Hisui Line: Itoigawa ⇄ Oyashirazu

Ōmi Station opened on 15 October 1912 as the terminus of the Hokuriku Main Line extension from Tomari. The line reached Itoigawa on 1 April 1913, making Ōmi an intermediate stop. Electrification at AC arrived between 30 September 1965 (Tomari–Itoigawa) and 25 August 1965 (Tomari–Toyama yard). The current second-generation building, a bridge-type structure, opened on 9 September 1968. The station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987, with JR Freight also operating here; regular freight trains ended on 15 March 2008 when the Ōmi Off-Rail Station was set up for road haulage. From 14 March 2015 the line, parallelling the new Hokuriku Shinkansen, was transferred to the third-sector Echigo Tokimeki Railway, and on 30 March 2019 staffing was withdrawn entirely.

On 3 February 1922 an avalanche struck the western mouth of Katsuyama Tunnel between Ōmi and Oyashirazu, derailing a train; 90 people died, including snow-clearing workers and passengers (the "Hokuriku Line train avalanche disaster").