Kita-Nagaoka Station - Nagaoka

Suica can not be settled, so careless balance is not enough.

The timetable was changed from the old analog type to the liquid crystal display type. The number of trains and real-time operation information are also displayed.

The wooden station building turned into concrete before I knew it. When using this station, be sure to leave the station and go to "Ramen Mizusawa" on the left.

Feeling that there is a minimum facility. It feels cold at the unmanned station, with the concrete being left alone. The waiting room on the platform is cold, even in the winter without heating appliances. However, it is good that there is a free bicycle parking lot near the station. 2018/3/4 To go to Niigata, use Kita-Nagaoka Station again. It was quite strange. The waiting room immediately after entering the station was divided into a ticket machine and a waiting room. Although there was no heating in the waiting room, it felt warm. Good, JR! !

It's one station next to Nagaoka station, but it was an unmanned station and it was a really small station. When I got off at Nagaoka, I overslept and got off at this station, but it was painful to kill time because there was nothing. Fortunately, it would be helpful to have a waiting room.

From the east side of the track, you can't enter the station, and you can't cross. There are no ticket gates or station staff. Owns an automatic ticket vending machine.

(March 3, 2022, revised post) It is a small unmanned station in the industrial area in the northern part of Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture. It is the closest station to Chuetsu High School and companies in the industrial area (Nippon Seiki, Tsugami, Kurashiki Machinery, OM Seisakusho, etc.). Although it is a double-track electrified Shin-Etsu line bar line station, it has a truly unique appearance. Now that I like unmanned stations, I would like to introduce you to the attractions and anecdotes of this station. 1. 1. New and beautiful station The stylish new station building with reinforced concrete structure was completed in October 2014. The old station building was a tin-covered wooden structure with a triangular roof, similar to the old Kita-Sanjo station. Like the old station building, there is a beverage vending machine, and there is a waiting room on the station building side where 14 people can sit. However, please note that no air conditioner is installed in the waiting room on the station building side. Similar to Kita-Gosen Station, a liquid crystal display that informs the operating status and timetable has been installed since March 2019. In the old station building era, it was a Japanese style flush toilet, but in the new station building it has changed to a Western style. However, please note that toilet paper is not installed to prevent theft. In addition, you can only enter and exit the station from the west exit where the industrial area is located, and you cannot enter or exit from the east exit where the rice fields and Suyoshi River are located. 2. 2. The waiting room on the platform side is unexpectedly old Completed in November 1973, it is old. However, since it is relatively well preserved, it can still be used. The Jooka district, where Kita-Nagaoka Station is located, is not along the sea and is not in a location where strong winds blow, so it must have escaped some deterioration. The chair for 10 people was replaced with an old chair when the station building was newly built. Please note that the air conditioner is not installed like the waiting room on the station building side. The platform roof and overpass are also moderately repaired, but they are old. 3. 3. Once a paradise for lateral lines Until 1984, a single-track non-electrified freight line diverged from the northern part of Kita-Nagaoka Station. It was a drop-in line to the current Hokuetsu Metal and Hokuetsu Corporation factories. The track has already been removed from the abandoned railway track, and there are almost no traces. Kita-Nagaoka Station used to handle cargo, and there were many sidings inside Line 1. During the construction of the Joetsu Shinkansen viaduct, the side line was purposely removed before construction (there is still ballast (crushed stone for railways) at the bottom of the Joetsu Shinkansen viaduct near Kita-Nagaoka Station. It is a remnant of that). Also, the structure where the distance between the station bookstore of Kita-Nagaoka Station and the platform is longer than that of other stations is because there used to be a lateral line. As of March 2022, there are only two sidings left for detention of snowplows and track maintenance vehicles. There is also a trace that one lateral line existed on the outside of track 2. There is no doubt that Kita-Nagaoka Station was once an even more important base station. 4. Time and background of unmanned station Google's Wikipedia has been in operation since April 1995, but in reality it has been unmanned since late September 1993. When the train stopped at Kita-Nagaoka Station during the manned station era, the station staff was always standing at the ticket gate, which was visible from the train window. The person who worked as a stationmaster and station employee until September 1993 was a male station employee who had the atmosphere of the Showa era wearing glasses for the retirement age. Waiting for the station staff to retire, Kita-Nagaoka Station may have been unmanned. I have never seen a station employee since then. It is possible that it was treated as a temporary manned station when the Nagaoka Fireworks Festival was held (Wikipedia contributors refer to materials from Nagaoka City). Since the beginning of the 1990s, the number of passengers has been declining due to the declining birthrate and aging population, and JR's railway stations in Niigata Prefecture have become unmanned and bar-lined (removal of exchange equipment). The flow extended to Kita-Nagaoka Station. Many sidings, which were a specialty of the station, were also removed by that time. 5. A rare station where you will be greeted by an island platform when you exit the ticket gate and cross the overpass. As mentioned above, since there were many side tracks concentrated on the station building side, it was impossible to install a single (single-sided) platform on the ticket gate side, so a two-sided island platform was set up via an overpass. It has an unusual structure.

It is an unmanned station in the northern part of Nagaoka city. The station is equipped with a waiting room, toilet, vending machine, and boarding station certificate issuing machine. Please note that there is no toilet paper installed in the toilet. You can use national transportation IC cards such as Suica, but since tickets are not sold, you need to issue a boarding station certificate and purchase the ticket from the conductor at the end of the train when boarding with cash. .. (You can also settle at the arrival station.)