History
Yokote Station opened on 15 June 1905 as a general station on the Japanese Government Railways, serving the town of Yokote in what was then Hiraka District, Akita Prefecture. The private Yokosho Railway began operating from the station on 18 August 1918, and the predecessor of the Kitakami Line followed on 10 October 1920. A November 1924 station building was destroyed during two American air raids in July and August 1945; a replacement opened in November 1978. The Yokosho Line ceased operation on 20 April 1971. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR East and JR Freight. A new overhead station building opened on 26 September 2011, followed by an east-west public passageway on 1 October 2011.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yokote ended up on the Ōu Main Line after a regional tug-of-war with Asamai over the route alignment, with the alignment via Yokote eventually winning out partly because Yokote was the seat of the Hiraka district office.