Myōkō-Kōgen Station

Myōkō-Kōgen Station (妙高高原駅) 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.

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

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

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. 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.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 282 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

 * Former Myoko-Kogen town hall