History
Ugo-Kameda Station opened on 30 July 1920 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways' Rikuusai Line, serving the village of Matsugasaki in what is now Yurihonjō, Akita Prefecture. It was switched to control of the Uetsu Main Line on 20 April 1924. Freight handling ended in October 1969 and parcel service in October 1981, when the station became unstaffed and simply contracted. Privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 placed it under JR East. On 18 March 2023 all local trains were consolidated onto Platform 1 to remove the need to use the footbridge, and the simple-contract sales arrangement with Yurihonjō City was discontinued, leaving the station permanently unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The station appears in Seichō Matsumoto's novel 'Suna no Utsuwa', where its existence is central to the plot, and features in both the film and television adaptations.