Ōsawa Station (Niigata)
railway station in Minamiuonuma, Niigata prefecture, Japan
Ōsawa Station (大沢駅, Ōsawa-eki) is a railway station on the Jōetsu Line in the city of Minamiuonuma, Niigata, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Ōsawa Station is a station on the Jōetsu Line, and is located 104.6 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Takasaki.
Station layout
The station has a two ground-level opposed side platforms connected by a footbridge. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
Ōsawa Station opened on 28 May 1949. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, it came under the control of JR East.
“Ōsawa Station (Niigata)” enters the record as railway station in Minamiuonuma, Niigata prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ōsawa, Station and Niigata can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3660575. Authority coordinates are 37.022, 138.822. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ōsawa Station (Niigata)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.