Iwappara-Skiing Ground Station (岩原スキー場前駅, Iwappara-Sukī-jō-mae-eki) is a railway station on the Joetsu Line in the town of Yuzawa, Minamiuonuma District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
The station has two ground-level opposed side platforms connected by an underground passage.
[2] It was closed in 1946 when the nearby ski slope was taken over by the allied occupation forces.
[1] It reopened as a temporary stop on 20 December 1952, and from 1 September 1981, the station operated all year round.
[2] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.