History
Tsurugata Station opened in December 1949 as a provisional flag stop, with three up and three down trains stopping daily; the official opening ceremony was held on the fifth. It was promoted to a full station of the Japanese National Railways on 25 January 1952, serving the village of Tsurugata in Akita Prefecture. Parcel handling ended on 1 October 1971 and the station was unstaffed, although a daytime ticket clerk was kept on until March 1972. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined JR East as a station on the Ōu Main Line, 360.3 km from Fukushima. The two opposed side platforms sit on an embankment, and the station building is built at platform level on the bank.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The local volunteer group Kakujukai has cleaned the station continuously since 1965; in 2011 the group received both Japan's Medal with Green Ribbon and a Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism award for railway service in recognition of their work.