Itoigawa Station
Lines. Itoigawa Station is served by the JR West high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen and the local Ōito Line, and is located 213.9 kilometers from Takasaki Station and 318.9 kilometers from Tokyo Station. It is 105.4 kilometers from Matsumoto Station, the terminus of the Ōito Line. For the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai Hisui Line, the station is 29.9 kilometers from Tomari Station and 315.0 kilometers from Maibara Station. Station layout. The local portion of the station has one side platform and one island platform with a cut-out, serving four tracks in total. The Shinkansen portion of the station  has two opposed side platforms, located above the local train platforms. The station building is located below the tracks and platforms. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office. Platforms. The departure melody used for the Shinkansen platforms is the traditional children's song , the lyrics for which were written by , a native of Itoigawa. History. The station opened on 16 December 1912. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West. From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to , local passenger operations  over sections of the Shinetsu Main Line and Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to third-sector railway operating companies. From this date, operations of former Hokuriku Main Line services were transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway. Passenger statistics. In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1205 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).