History
Yotsugoya Station opened on 16 August 1917 as part of the Japanese Government Railways' Ōu Main Line in what was then Yotsugoya village, now Akita city. Freight handling ended on 1 March 1972, parcel service and station staffing on 1 April 1976. JNR's 1987 privatisation transferred the station to JR East, and a new building was completed in 2004. Rapid services began stopping here on 26 March 2016, and Suica IC card support was introduced on 27 May 2023. An island platform serves the conventional line while the parallel Akita Shinkansen runs through without stopping.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform layout was reshaped when Akita Shinkansen construction converted what had been the easternmost track to standard gauge, leaving a partly-dismantled side platform that was repurposed as an eastern entrance.