History
Maeyama began as Maeyama Signal Station (前山信号場) on 27 August 1929, was upgraded to a provisional halt on 10 April 1946, and finally promoted to a full station on 1 March 1951 under the Japanese National Railways. It serves the Ōu Main Line, 379.5 km from the line's southern terminus at Fukushima. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1967 and the station was unstaffed on 1 October 1971, although a daytime ticket clerk was retained until March 1972. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East. The station building was rebuilt in 2008, and on 1 December 2018 administrative control moved from Ōdate to the Higashi-Noshiro management hub.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Maeyama was a signal box for the first seventeen years of its existence — passengers could only flag a train down from 1946 onwards, and it was not gazetted as a station proper until 1951.