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Ōmigawa Station is a railway station on the Shinetsu Main Line in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).LinesŌmigawa Station is served by the Shinetsu Main Line, and is 29.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Naoetsu Station.HistoryThe station was opened on 28 July 1899. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.On 17 July 2007, the station and line was damaged and blocked by a landslide caused by the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake. The line reopened to traffic on 13 September 2007. A new station building was completed on 25 March 2008.