Station

Toukouji

東光寺

Toukouji
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Tōkōji Station began on 29 May 1944 as a signal stop on the Ministry of Railways' Shin'etsu Main Line in what is now Sanjō, Niigata Prefecture. It was promoted to a full station on 1 July 1953, then unstaffed and put under simplified contract operation on 1 October 1970. Two opposed ground-level side platforms serve two tracks, connected by a footbridge. The station passed to JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatization of Japanese National Railways, and joined the Niigata-area Suica zone on 15 March 2008. It now sits 91.1 kilometers from the line's other end at Naoetsu.

Notes

Although the station carries the name of the nearby Tōkōji settlement, the platform itself stands roughly 300 metres from that village, surrounded on all sides by paddy fields.

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