Higashi-Namerikawa Station is served by the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line and is 62.1 kilometres from the starting point of the line at Kurikara.

Higashi-Namerikawa Station has two opposed ground-level side platforms connected by a level crossing.

It was privatized on 1 April 1984, becoming a station on JR West.

From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa, local passenger operations over sections of the former Hokuriku Main Line running roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies.

[1] From this date, Higashi-Namerikawa Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Ainokaze Toyama Railway In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 154 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).