Myōkō-Kōgen Station

Railway station in Myōkō, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Shinano Railway
Echigo Tokimeki Railway

Line(s)

■ Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line
■ Myōkō Haneuma Line

Distance37.3 km from NaganoPlatforms1 side + 1 island platformsTracks3HistoryOpened1 May 1888Previous namesTaguchi (until 1969)PassengersFY2017282 daily

Location
Myōkō-Kōgen Station Location within Myoko Haneuma Line Show map of Myoko Haneuma Line Myōkō-Kōgen Station Myōkō-Kōgen Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Myōkō-Kōgen Station (妙高高原駅, Myōkō-Kōgen-eki) is a railway station in Myōkō, Niigata, Japan, jointly operated by the third-sector railway operators Shinano Railway and Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

Lines

Myōkō-Kōgen forms the boundary station between the 37.3 km Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line from Nagano and the 37.7 km Echigo Tokimeki Railway Myōkō Haneuma Line to Naoetsu. No regularly scheduled through-running services operate, but a cross-platform transfer is provided, with Shinano Railway trains normally using platform 2 and Echigo Tokimeki Railway trains normally using platform 3.^[2]

Station layout

The station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge.

Platforms

1	■ Myōkō Haneuma Line	for Jōetsumyōkō, Takada, and Naoetsu
2	■ Kita-Shinano Line	for Toyono and Nagano
3	■ Myōkō Haneuma Line	for Jōetsu-Myōkō, Takada, and Naoetsu

A Shinano Railway 115 series train at platform 2 in June 2015
ETR and Shinano Railway trains at platforms 3 and 2 in June 2015
Station interior, August 2018

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Kita-Shinano Line
Kurohime	Local	Terminus
Myōkō Haneuma Line
Terminus	Local	Sekiyama

History

The station opened on 1 May 1888, named Taguchi Station (田口駅).^[3] It was renamed Myōkō-Kōgen Station on 1 October 1969.^[3] With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).^[3]

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.^[2] From this date, Myōkō-Kōgen Station became a boundary station between the Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line of Nagano Prefecture to the south and the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Myōkō Haneuma Line of Niigata Prefecture to the north.^[2]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 282 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[4]

Surrounding area

Former Myoko-Kogen town hall
National Route 18

References

^ Japan Railfan Club Niigata Branch, ed. (30 June 2015). The Databook of all Railroad Stations in Niigata (in Japanese) (Revised ed.). Niigata Nipposha. p. 241. ISBN 978-4-86132-606-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c Osano, Kagetoshi (March 2015). 北陸新幹線並行在来線各社の姿 [Guide to companies operating conventional lines alongside the Hokuriku Shinkansen]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 44, no. 371. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 28–33.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Japan: JTB. p. 580. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
^ 平成29年度の乗車状況（平成29年4月1日～平成30年3月31日））［各駅の１日平均乗車人員 [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2015)] (in Japanese). Japan: Echigo Tokimeki Railway Company. 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2018.