水上駅

Minakami Station

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17 Events

1928 10月30日

The station was established with the opening of the Japanese National Railways Jōetsu Line, from Gōkkan Station to this station.

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国有鉄道上越南線・後閑駅 - 当駅間の開業に伴い開設される。

1931 8月15日

Mizumi Locomotive Depot was opened.

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水上機関庫を開設。

1931 9月1日

With the completion of the Shimizu Tunnel, the Jōetsu Line section from the station to Yuzawa Station opened, completing the entire line, and the section from the station to Ishiuchi Station was electrified simultaneously.

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清水トンネルの完成により、上越線・当駅 - 越後湯沢駅間が開通し、全通。同時に当駅 - 石打駅間が電化される。

1951 9月4日

A fire broke out around 3:35 a.m. near the staff dormitory on the second floor of the station, completely burning down the station building and the overpass.

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午前3時35分ごろ、駅2階職員宿舎付近から出火し、駅舎と跨線橋が全焼。

1952 1月1日

A two-story station building made of concrete blocks was completed and opened for service.

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コンクリートブロック造2階建ての駅舎が完成し、供用を開始。

1970 12月15日

A tourist information center was opened.

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観光センターを開設。

1978 10月11日

Freight handling, excluding carload freight on dedicated lines, was abolished.

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（専用線発着の車扱貨物を除く）貨物の取り扱いを廃止。

1983 8月15日

The handling of carload cargo arriving and departing from dedicated lines was abolished.

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専用線発着の車扱貨物の取り扱いを廃止。

1984 2月1日

The handling of freight was abolished.

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荷物の扱いを廃止。

1986 11月1日

The Mizukami locomotive depot was abolished and became the Mizukami branch office of the Nagaoka operational depot.

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水上機関区を廃止し、長岡運転所水上派出所となる。

1987 4月1日

With the privatization of JNR, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

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国鉄分割民営化により、東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）の駅となる。

2002

In the final period, two vendors, Kojima Store and Kikufuji Hotel's bento department, were selling items such as Yama's kamenashi.

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最末期は小島商店と菊富士ホテル（弁当部）の2業者が岳（やま）の釜めしなどを販売していた。

2002 10月

Sales of ekiben within the station were discontinued.

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構内での駅弁の販売を終了。

2006 3月

The Midori-no-Madoguchi was abolished and the Moshi Moshi Ticket Vending Machine Kaeru-kun was installed.

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みどりの窓口を廃止し、もしもし券売機Kaeruくんを設置。

2006 3月22日

Automatic ticket gate operation began.

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自動改札機の供用を開始。

2009 3月14日

The expansion of the Tokyo suburban area makes it possible to use the IC card "Suica" (only for the Takasaki direction).

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東京近郊区間の拡大により、ICカード「Suica」の利用が可能となる（高崎方面のみ）。

2010 11月1日

The departure melody was changed to Minakami Town's song "Furushi Minakami".

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発車メロディをみなかみ町のうた「ふる里みなかみ」に変更。

Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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