Nō Station | |
Native Name: | 能生駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | 2538 Shirabyoshi, Nō, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture |
Country: | Japan |
Distance: | from |
Platforms: | 2 island platforms |
Tracks: | 2 |
Structure: | Elevated |
Passengers: | 241 daily |
Pass Year: | FY2021 |
Map Type: | Japan Niigata Prefecture#Japan Kanto Chubu Kansai#Japan |
is a railway station in the city of Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan, operated by Echigo Tokimeki Railway.
Nō Station is served by the Nihonkai Hisui Line, and is 33.4 kilometers from the starting point of the line at and 327.9 kilometers from Maibara Station.
The station consists of two island platforms on an embankment, level with the second story of a two-story station building.
The station opened on 16 December 1912, as part of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR, JNR after 1949). It was relocated to its present location of 1 October 1961.
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.[1] From this date, Nō Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Echigo Tokimeki Railway.
In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 331 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]