page_title: Myōkō-Kōgen Station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Myōkō-Kōgen Station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Myōkō-Kōgen Station 日本語: JR妙高高原駅、2006年4月16日、投稿者本人による
context_page_description: Myōkō-Kōgen Station is a railway station in Myōkō, Niigata, Japan, jointly operated by the third-sector railway operators Shinano Railway and Echigo Tokimeki Railway.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Myōkō-Kōgen Station in April 2006, when operated by JR East
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